Place of birth: Manchester, England

Parentage: son of Prof. Ross D. Waller, CBE and Isobel Waller (née Brown)

Family: Married Manon Lallée 1970; two daughters, Nadia (b. 1970) and Florence (b. 1975)

Education: BA (Litt. Hum.), University of Oxford 1958; MA 1960; BA (Hons), Russian, University of Manchester 1963

Career: Michael Waller is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Keele University and was its first Director of European Studies. He was co-founder (now co-editor) of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics (see url below) and of the Journal of Environmental Politics (see url below).

Publications include: The Language of Communism: A Commentary 1972, Democratic Centralism: An Historical Commentary 1981, Military Marxist Regimes in Africa (first co-editor) 1986, Communist Parties in Western Europe: Decline or Adaptation? (first co-editor) 1988, Peace, Power and Protest: Eastern Europe in the Gorbachev Era (Conflict Studies) 1988, Comrades and Brothers: Communism and Trade Unions in Europe (first co-editor) 1991, Social Democracy in a Post-communist Europe (first co-editor) 1994, Parties, Trade Unions and Society in East-Central Europe (special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies) 1994, The End of the Communist Power Monopoly 1994, Conflicting Loyalties and the State in Post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia (first co-editor) 1998, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Volume 1: Political and Historical Dimensions (co-editor) 2000, Kosovo: The Politics of Delusion (first co-editor) 2001, Political Loyalty and the Nation-State (first co-editor; Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics, 23) 2003, Russian Politics Today 2005; chapters in each edited book listed and numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Chancellor's Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffs., ST5 5BG, England; Tel: +44 (0)1782 583088; Fax: +44 (0)1782 583592; Email: michael_waller2000@yahoo.co.uk ; Website: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/spire/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13523279.asp/ .