John Micgiel, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, is an associate director of the Harriman Institute. He is also the director of the East Central European Center and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Europe. Professor Micgiel's teaching and research interests include modern history of East Central Europe (ECE), contemporary politics in ECE, and Western Europe. He has authored Coercion and the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1944–1947 (forthcoming); In the Shadow of the Second Republic; Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence; and Frenzy and Ferocity: The Stalinist Judicial System in Poland, 1944–1947, and the Search for Redress (The Carl Beck Papers). He has been the editor for Wilsonian East Central Europe, Perspectives on Political and Economic Transitions after Communism, State and Nation Building in East Central Europe: Contemporary Perspectives, and coeditor for Poles and Jews: Myth and Reality in the Historical Context.