JACOB BARNAI Professor, Departments of Jewish History and of Israel Studies, University of Haifa, Israel RAGNAR BJOERK Associate Professor, Soedertoern University, Sweden CIARAN BRADY Fellow, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland CHRISTOPHER FISCHER Assistant Professor of History, Indiana State University, USA JOERG HACKMANN DAAD Alfred-Doeblin-Professor of East European History, University of Szczecin, Poland ILKKA LIIKANEN Professor of Border and Russian Studies, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland ANDREW LUDANYI Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, USA XOSE-MANOEL NUNEZ Professor of Modern History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain ROBIN OKEY Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK UFFE OSTERGARD Professor of European and Danish History, International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Demark MILAN ?EPA Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic NIEK VAN SAS Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RAFAL STOBIECKI Professor, Chair of the History of Historiography, Lodz University, Lodz, Poland WERNER SUPPANZ Assistant Professor, Institute of History Contemporary History, University of Graz, Austria