ROBERT A. VITAS is currently at the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, while serving as Vice President of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, and Assistant to the Executive Director of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society at the University of Chicago. He has published in Air University Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Proceedings of the Institute of Lithuanian Studies, The Russian Review, and Lituanus.

• Introduction The Twilight of Independence, 1939-1940 International Law and the Lithuanian Situation Genesis of the U.S. Nonrecognition Policy Political and Legal Effects of Nonrecognition Nonrecognition and Wartime Politics Extended Implementation of Nonrecognition Problems of Implementation: Case Studies Conclusion Epilogue: Entering the 1990s Bibliography Index

ROBERT A. VITAS is currently at the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, while serving as Vice President of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, and Assistant to the Executive Director of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society at the University of Chicago. He has published in Air University Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Proceedings of the Institute of Lithuanian Studies, The Russian Review, and Lituanus.

• Introduction The Twilight of Independence, 1939-1940 International Law and the Lithuanian Situation Genesis of the U.S. Nonrecognition Policy Political and Legal Effects of Nonrecognition Nonrecognition and Wartime Politics Extended Implementation of Nonrecognition Problems of Implementation: Case Studies Conclusion Epilogue: Entering the 1990s Bibliography Index

ROBERT A. VITAS is currently at the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, while serving as Vice President of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, and Assistant to the Executive Director of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society at the University of Chicago. He has published in Air University Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Proceedings of the Institute of Lithuanian Studies, The Russian Review, and Lituanus.

• Introduction The Twilight of Independence, 1939-1940 International Law and the Lithuanian Situation Genesis of the U.S. Nonrecognition Policy Political and Legal Effects of Nonrecognition Nonrecognition and Wartime Politics Extended Implementation of Nonrecognition Problems of Implementation: Case Studies Conclusion Epilogue: Entering the 1990s Bibliography Index