Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor: Soviet Union, Russia, and Ukraine Tarik Cyril Amar is currently working on a transnational history of Cold War narratives and representations of spying, secrecy, and multiple identities. His book "The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv. A Borderland City between Nazis, Stalinists, and Nationalists" (Cornell University Press, 2015) reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe’s most important multiethnic borderland cities.