About the Author: Dr. Richard Bishirjian earned the Ph.D. in Government at the University of Notre Dame. While an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, he worked in the Nixon and Goldwater campaigns for president and served as a political appointee in the Reagan "transition" and first Presidential Administration. From 1987 to 1992 he was a consultant to associates of President's Lech Walesa and to US WEST International and other American companies entering the Polish marketplace. Dr. Bishirjian is founding President of Yorktown University.