Martha Brill Olcott is a senior associate with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment. She specializes in the problems of transitions in Central Asia and the Caucasus as well as the security challenges in the Caspian region. Anders Aslund is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics and former director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment. He is an internationally recognized specialist on Ukraine and postcommunist economic transformation. An adviser to the Ukrainian government from 1994 to 1997, he most recently co-chaired a Blue Ribbon Commission on Ukraine sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme. Sherman W. Garnett is the Dean of James Madison College, Michigan State University. Formerly, Garnett was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.