Adrian Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Birmingham. He is an organizational theorist by background, with longstanding interests and experience in the associated fields of leadership and human resource management. The experience of contradictions involved in the reform of Russian federalism led him toward a preoccupation with the concept of empire, which is now the main focus of his research. The study of empire is approached in organizational terms, focusing on the interaction between vertical and horizontal structures of power.