RONALD H. LINDEN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. A Princeton Ph.D. (1976), Dr. Linden is the author of “Balkan Geometry: Turkish Accession and the International Relations of Southeast Europe” Orbis (Spring, 2007) and “EU Accession and the Role of International Actors,” in Sharon Wolchik and Jane Curry, Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Other publications include: “Twin Peaks: Romania and Bulgaria between the EU and the United States,” Problems of Post-Communism (October-November, 2004) and editing and introducing a special issue of Problems of Post-Communism devoted to “The New Populism in Central and Southeast Europe,” (May/June, 2008).

For 2009-2010 Dr. Linden has been awarded a Transatlantic Academy Fellowship from the German Marhshall Fund, as part of a four-person senior team that will work on the topic of “Turkey and its neighbors.”

Dr. Linden has received research grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research and its predecessor, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, and from the International Research and Exchanges Board. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar, a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, a Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace under the Jennings Randolph Program on International Peace, and a Guest Scholar of the East European Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

During 1984-89 and 1991-98 he was Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Pitt. From 1989 to 1991 Dr. Linden served as Director of Research for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany, where his responsibilities included supervision of the publication of the weekly, Report on Eastern Europe.

Address:
Department of Political Science
4600 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Tel: 412-648-7258
Email: linden@pitt.edu