Ronald Linden

Ronald H. Linden is spending this year as a Senior Fellow of the Transatlantic Academy based at the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. While there he is preparing, with other members of the Transatlantic Academy, a volume on Turkey and its neighbors. He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of “The Burden of Belonging: Romanian and Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the New Era,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (September 2009) and "Balkan Geometry: Turkish Accession and the International Relations of Southeast Europe" Orbis (Spring 2007).

Dr. Linden is currently the Associate Editor of the journal Problems of Post-Communism and from 1989-1991 served as Director of Research for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany. He has received research grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research and has been a Fulbright Research Scholar, a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, a Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and a Guest Scholar of the East European Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center.