SABRINA P. RAMET, profesorica političkih znanosti sa Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway), svjetski je priznata stručnjakinja koja se u svom akademskom radu specijalizirala za područje Istočne i Jugoistočne Europe. Autorica je niza utjecajnih knjiga među kojima izdvajamo:
"Cross and Commissar: The Politics of Religion in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union" (1987)
"Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation" (1995)
"Balkan Babel: Politics, Culture and Religion in Yugoslavia" (1992)
"Whose democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe" (1997)
"Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia" (1998)