PAUL J. BEST Political Science

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

With Kul B. Rai and David F. Walsh. America in the 21st Century; Challenges and Opportunities in Domestic Politics, Prentice Hall, 1998

With Kul B. Rai and David F. Walsh. America in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Foreign Policy. Prentice-Hall, 1997.

Governing Through Turbulence . Praeger, 1995.

Politics in Three Worlds. Wiley, 1985; reprinted by Macmillan, 1986.

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

"Three Essays on the Lemko Question." In Contributions of the Carpatho-Slavic Studies Group to the IV World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July 21-16, 1990, edited by Paul J. Best, New Haven, CT: Carpatho-Slavic Studies Group, 1990: 55-93.

"Eastern Europe." In Legal Traditions and Systems: An International Handbook, edited by Alan N. Katz, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986: 65-84.

"Polish American Scholarly Organizations." In Pastor to the Poles: Polish American Essays..., edited by S. Blejwas and M. Biskupski, New Britain, CT (Central Connecticut State University Polish Studies Monograph Series), 1982: 153-165.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

Review  - "Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland" American Political Science Review, Vol 91, No. 2 June 1997, p. 492-493.

"The Lemkos as an Ethnic Group." The Polish Review 35:3/4 (1990): 255-260.

"The Latest Ucrainica." The Polish Review 35:/3/4 (1990): 285-288.

"Insurance in Imperial Russia." The Journal of European Economic History 18:1 (Spring 1989): 139-169.

"Property Insurance in People's Poland." The Polish Review 28:3 (1983): 53-65.

"M. Kamil Dziewanowski and the Study of Contemporary Poland." The Polish Review 22:3 (1977): 107-109.

"The Rusnak-Lemko Mountaineers and the National Question in People's Poland." Connecticut Review 9:2 (1976): 74-81.

"Poland--1968: Domestic Politics and Intra-Party Struggle." Connecticut Review 6:2 (1973): 87-98.

"The Warsaw Insurance Company in the United States." The Polish Review 15:3 (Summer 1970): 66-71.

"Some Notes on the Soviet Foreign Insurance System." The Journal of Risk and Insurance 34:3 (September 1967): 445-450.

"State Insurance in the Soviet Union." Scope: A Journal of the Social Sciences 2:2 (May 1966): 33-38.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Managing Editor, The Polish Review (1969-1992) (quarterly journal published in NY).

Staff Assistant, Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1978- 1992) (semi-annual journal published

in Cambridge, MA).

Editor, Carpatho-Slavic Studies (1990-present) (triennial journal published in New

Haven, CT).

"A Regional Approach to Higher Education." New York Times, April 6, 1980: CN17.

Guest editor. "Contemporary Politics in Poland." International Journal of Politics 9:1 (Spring 1979). 120 pages.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Northeast Asia: Russia, Korea, Japan,  China & USA

History and Politics of Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Carpatho-Ruthenia

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

America in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Domestic Policy (expected date of publication February 1997)

The Lemkos in their Homeland and in Diaspora (monograph)

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT/COLLABORATION IN MY RESEARCH:

John Aiken: Research paper on changes in Russian Law since collapse of Soviet Union

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Origins and Development of Insurance in Imperial and Soviet Russia

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

New York University