STANISLAV MARKUS is Associate Professor of International Business at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. His book Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine (2015) was awarded the 2016 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He has published articles in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Polity