Robert A. Saunders is an assistant professor in the political science department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark. He teaches courses on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, global Islam, and mass media. His research interests include transnational identity, politics in cyberspace, and national minorities. He has also taught at Wagner College, Monmouth University, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He received his Ph.D. in Global Affairs from the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University in 2005. Recent publications include "A Marooned Diaspora: Ethnic Russians in the Near Abroad and Their Impact on Russia's Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics" in International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005).

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