Ferenc A. Váli was a lawyer and professor of government and international relations. He taught at the University of Budapest until he and his wife were imprisoned on political charges in 1951. After their release in 1956, he and his wife fled to the United States, where Váli took a position at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Váli is also the author of Rift and Revolt in Hungary: Nationalism versus Communism and The Future of Germany.