Patrick Bodovitz is currently an assistant editor at Fair Observer, an emerging expert junior fellow with the Forum on the Arms Trade and a contributing writer for the history website TheCollector. He has published articles on military and social history in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Additionally, he published an alternative-history novel titled The Jewish People’s Republic. He graduated from Gettysburg College, where he studied political science and history, and also from American University, where he got an MA in conflict and peace research.