Josette Baer
The author, Josette Baer, is adjunct professor of political theory with a focus on Central and Eastern European political thought at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. She has published several books and peer-reviewed studies about Czechoslovak, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, and Macedonian political thought and politics.
The author of the foreword, Jan Foltín, was the ambassador of Slovakia to Switzerland from 2010 to 2014.