Lisa A. Baglione is a Professor and the Chair of the Political Science Department at Saint Joseph¿s University. Her major fields of study are International Relations and Comparative Politics. Dr. Baglione has published works exploring contemporary Russian foreign policy, post-settlement peacebuilding, the arms control decision-making process in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Russia, and the research-paper writing process, and has co-authored articles on the transformation of the Russian polity and economy in the early post-communist period. Currently, she is researching conflict transformation in the twenty-first century and contemporary Russian center-periphery relations. At Saint Joseph¿s, Dr. Baglione teaches courses in which she developed the ideas, advice, and techniques offered in this work.