Gerard J. Libaridian teaches in the History Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and holds the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History. Currently he is also the Director of the Armenian Studies Program in that University.  Dr. Libaridian was a co-founder of the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its director (1982-1990), and editor of the Armenian Review (1983-1988). From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Libaridian served as adviser, and then senior adviser (foreign and security policies) to the former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian, as well as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994) of the newly independent republic.  The French edition of his most recent work, Modern Armenia. People. Nation. State, (2004) will be released in Paris soon. The Challenge of Statehood (1999) was published in French, Armenian, and Turkish. Dr. Libaridian is now completing two new studies, In Search of the Savior: Armenian Liberation Ideology from the 16^th to the 19^th Centuries and Anatomy of Conflict. Nagorno Karabagh and the New World Order.