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During the course of working on this project I approached many professors at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS and I am very grateful for their highly valuable suggestions and insights: Prof. William Zartman, Prof. Bruce Parrot, Prof. David Calleo, Prof. Ernesto Hernandez-Cata, Prof. Jaime Marquez, Prof. Karen Macours, Prof. John Harrington, and the late Prof. Enzo Grilli. I have also received very strong support from the professors of the Warsaw University whom I would like to thank: Prof. Edward Halizak, Prof. Marek Tabor, and Prof. Leszek Kasprzyk. Furthermore, I would like to thank very much the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University and the people working there for providing a great environment to work on that project, as well as Dean John Baker for helping to find ways to assure the necessary financial support.
My exceptional friends from Washington, DC, and Warsaw, Poland, encouraged me with their ongoing interest in my work and helpful discussions for which I am very grateful for. In addition, I would like to thank my friends Caterina Meloni and Thea Jokhadze for their help in the process of this project. I would also like to thank Ambassador Henry and Hertha Owen for their interest in my work and active support.
Finally, I would like to thank my family for their wonderful support. I owe special thanks to my father Józef Aleksy, the best strategic advisor in Central and Eastern Europe, for his advice on various topics from the beginning to the end of this project. I owe great thanks to my mother, Bozena, for her love and care, especially during the difficult periods of writing this book. I would like to thank my two grandmothers for helping me learn to keep a healthy distance to my work. I would also like to thank my brother, Arek, and his wife, Monika, for finding entertaining things to do together in order to unwind. I would like to thank my family from Okmiany for their interest in my work and emotional support, my family from Sroda Slaska for providing a different perspective, and my family from Austria for their overall support.
And last but foremost, I would like to thank my husband Jakob Szucsich, who was very actively involved in this project from its outset to the end.