Daniel Chirot Ph.D., Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington is the co-author, with Clark McCauley, of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006). He wrote Modern Tyrants (1996) and How Societies Change (1994) as well as other books about social change and Eastern Europe. He was the founding editor of the journal East European Politics and Societies. His research has been helped by the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations. He has worked as a consultant in Africa for CARE, and in 2004/05 he was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC doing research on African conflicts. He has a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia.