RONALD H. LINDEN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. A Princeton Ph.D. (1976), Dr. Linden is the author most recently of "Balkan Geometry: Turkish Accession and the International Relations of Southeast Europe" (forthcoming in Orbis); “Twin Peaks: Romania and Bulgaria between the EU and the United States” (Problems of Post-Communism); “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Anti-EU Attitudes in Central and Southeast Europe” (Journal of European Integration); and an edited volume: Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations on the Central and East European States.

From 1989 to 1991 Dr. Linden served as Director of Research for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany. During 1984-89 and 1991-98 he was Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Pitt. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar and Distinguished Lecturer, a Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. During the first half of 2007 he will be continuing his research on the impact of Turkish EU accession on US relations in the Balkans under a grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.