A nation must think before it acts.
Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is an independent researcher based out of Dushanbe. She specializes in party politics, democratization, and national security in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Her research has appeared in the Journal for Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, East European Politics, New Eastern Europe, and The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).