Charles Gati is a political scientist who fled his native Hungary after the collapse of the 1956 revolt, and is now Senior Research Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. His previous positions have included teaching Central and Eastern European as well as Russian politics and foreign policy at Union College and Columbia University. He served as a Senior Adviser on the Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff in the early 1990’s. Among his publications are The Bloc That Failed (1990), Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (1986), Failed Illusions (2006), ZBIG (2013), and other works.