Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics
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Biography
Mark N. Katz is a professor emeritus of government and politics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989), Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin's Press, 1997), Reflections on Revolutions (St. Martin's Press, 1999), and Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
During 2017, Katz was a visiting scholar first at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (January-March) and at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki (April-September). During 2018, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (January-March) and the Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University in the U.K. (April-June). In February 2019, he was appointed a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center from April 2024 until April 2025.
Katz earned a BA in international relations from the University of California at Riverside in 1976, a MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1978, and a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.
Curriculum Vitae
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Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics
Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University
mkatz@gmu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1982.
M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, May 1978.
B.A. in International Relations, University of California at Riverside, June 1976.
EMPLOYMENT
Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, George Mason University, June 2024--. Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University, September 1998-May 2024.
Associate Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University, September 1992-August 1998.
Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University, September 1988-August 1992.
Research Associate, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 1985-May 1987.
Soviet Affairs Analyst, U.S. Department of State, Office of Soviet and East European Research, January-August 1982 (temporary appointment).
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Sir William Luce Fellow, Durham University (UK), April-June 2018.
Fulbright Scholar, School of Oriental and African Studies (UK), January-March 2018.
GMU Faculty Study Leaves (sabbaticals), Spring 1998, Fall 2004, Fall 2010, and Fall 2017-Spring 2018.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants, Summer 1997, Summer 2001, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2006, and Spring 2015.
Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant, January 2008.
Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center 21st Century Center of Excellence Program Foreign Visitors Fellowship, June-July 2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend, Summer 1995.
United States Institute of Peace Grant, September 1994-May 1995.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, September 1993-May 1994.
GMU International Institute Summer Research Grants, 1991 and 1992.
United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship, June 1989-May 1990.
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Research Scholarship, February- August 1985.
Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellowship, September 1982-November 1984.
Earhart Foundation H. B. Earhart Fellowships, Summer 1980 and Fall 1981.
Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, September 1980-August 1981.
Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship, September 1979-May 1980.
OTHER
Advisory Council Member, Kennan Institute (Wilson Center), October 2024--. Global Fellow, The Wilson Center, April 2024--.
Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Council, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, September 2021--; Council Member, January 2018--.
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, February 2019--.
Editorial Board Member, Asia Policy (published by the National Bureau of Asian Research), January 2006--.
Visiting Senior Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, April-September 2017, August 2018.
Visiting Scholar, The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, January-March 2017. Senior Fellow, Middle East Policy Council, Washington, DC, September 2010-January 2011.
Visiting Scholar, Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Applied Political Sciences, Moscow, March 2010.
Research Scholar, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, May 2001.
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College Asian Studies Program, June-August 1995. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Department of Government and Russian
Area Studies Program, January 1986-December 1987.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies, March-August 1985. Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service, January-May 1985.
Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, September 1982- November 1984.
BOOKS
Leaving Without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
Editor, Revolution: International Dimensions (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001).
Reflections on Revolutions (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 1999).
Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, 1997).
Editor, Soviet-American Conflict Resolution in the Third World (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1991).
Editor, The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World (Cambridge University Press/Wilson Center, 1990).
Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Praeger/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989).
Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).
The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press/Croom Helm, 1982).
ARTICLES AND PAPERS
“The Geopolitical (In)Significance of BRICS Enlargement.” EconPol Forum, January 2024.
“The United States and Regional Great Power Rivalry: Can America Still Pass the Mearsheimer Test?” Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Working Paper no. 133, April 2023.
“The Role of Deflection in Putin’s Diplomacy toward the U.S.,” Kennan Cable No. 71, Kennan Institute/Wilson Center, September 2021.
“Putin’s Mediterranean Gambit: Endgame Unclear,” Atlantic Council, April 2021. “The 2020 Saudi-Russian Oil Price War,” Public Jurist (Hong Kong), August 2020. “Incessant Interest: Tsarist, Soviet and Putinist Mideast Strategies.” Middle East Policy, Spring 2020.
“Whatever His Title, He Plans to Remain in Charge: Is It a Solo ‘Tandemocracy’ Now?” Al Jazeera Center for Studies, February 6, 2020.
“When the Friend of My Friends Is Not My Friend: The United States, US Allies, and Russia in the Middle East,” Atlantic Council Issue Brief, May 2019.
“Support Opposing Sides Simultaneously: Russia’s Approach to the Gulf and the Middle East,” Al Jazeera Center for Studies, August 23, 2018.
"Better Than Before: Comparing Moscow's Cold War and Putin Era Policies toward Arabia and the Gulf," Durham Middle East Paper No. 96/Sir William Luce Fellowship Paper No. 19, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University, August 2018.
“Fluid Dynamics: Global Great Powers in the 21st Century,” Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Working Paper no. 100, October 24, 2017.
“America’s Dilemma: Dealing with Multiple Adversaries Simultaneously,” Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Working Paper no. 96, June 15, 2017.
“The Gulf and the Great Powers: Evolving Dynamics,” Middle East Policy, Summer 2017.
“Silver Lining in the Clouds? Prospects for Trump-Putin Cooperation in the Middle East,” The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, March 30, 2017.
“The Russian Approach to Middle East Conflicts and the Arab World,” IEMed. Mediterranean Yearbook, 2016.
“The GCC View of Russia: Diminishing Expectations,” The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, July 28, 2016.
“Russian-Iranian Relations after the Iranian Nuclear Accord,” Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, June 29, 2016.
“Geopolitics and Terrorism in the 21st Century,” Revista ORBE, May 2016.
“Les relations russo-saoudiennes : un rapprochement incertain,” Moyen-Orient, n° 30, April-June 2016.
“Estrategia geopolítica rusa en el Mediterráneo,” Afkar/Ideas, no. 48, Winter 2015/2016. “Convergent Hopes, Divergent Realities: Russia and the Gulf in a Time of Troubles,”
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, November 6, 2015.
“Ukraine and the Future of NATO,” Al Jazeera Center for Studies, September 15, 2015. “Conflicting Aims, Limited Means: Russia in the Middle East,” FRIDE Policy Brief no. 201, May 2015.
“Aggression und Reaktion: Russland, die Ukraine und der Westen,” OSTEUROPA, nos.1-2, 2015 (English version published and German version republished by Eurozine, May 6, 2015).
“The International Relations of the Arab Spring,” Middle East Policy, Summer 2014. “Can Russian-U.S. Relations Improve?” Strategic Studies Quarterly, Summer 2014. “Russia and the Conflict in Syria: Four Myths,” Middle East Policy, Summer 2013. “The Arab Spring and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: International Implications,” Russia in Global Affairs, January-March 2013.
“Moscow and the Middle East: Repeat Performance?” Russia in Global Affairs, July- September 2012. (Russian translation: “Сирия для России как Афганистан для СССР?” Россия в глобальной политике, September-October 2012).
“Russia and Iran.” Middle East Policy, Fall 2012. (German translation: “Partnerschaft mit Grenzen: Russland und Iran.” OSTEUROPA, June-August 2012).
“La Russie et le ‘printemps arabe’: la démocratie en question.” Moyen-Orient, no. 15, July-September 2012.
“What Would a Democratic Russian Foreign Policy Look Like?” New Zealand International Review, March/April 2012. (Russian translation: “Не в демократии дело,” Россия в глобальной политике, March-April 2012).
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era,” Middle East Policy, Summer 2010. “Russia’s Greater Middle East Policy,” Institut français des relations internationals (IFRI), Russie.Nei.Visions, no. 49, April 2010.
“Obama’s Approach to Russia and Iran,” Middle East Strategy at Harvard, Middle East Papers No. 8, December 14, 2009.
“Russian-Iranian Relations: Functional Dysfunction,” Mideast Monitor, July-August 2009.
“Saudi-Russian Relations since the Abdullah-Putin Summit,” Middle East Policy, Spring 2009.
“Implications of the Georgian Crisis for Israel, Iran, and the West,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, December 2008.
“The Russian-Libyan Rapprochement: What Has Moscow Gained?” Middle East Policy, Fall 2008.
“Will There Be Any More Democratic Revolutions?” Nonviolent Social Change, May 2008.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad Era,” Middle East Journal, Spring 2008. “Comparing Putin’s and Brezhnev’s Policies toward the Middle East,” Society, March-April 2008.
“The Emerging Saudi-Russian Partnership,” Mideast Monitor, January-March 2008. “Russia and Algeria: Partners or Competitors?” Middle East Policy, Winter 2007.
“Russian Foreign Policy: Assertive, but Alone,” The World Today, November 2007.
“Will There Be Revolution in Central Asia?” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, June 2007.
“Non-Democratic Revolutions and Attempts at State Breakup: Is There a Connection?” World Affairs, Winter 2007.
“Putin, Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis,” Middle East Policy, Winter 2006. “The Putin-Chavez Partnership,” Problems of Post-Communism, July-August 2006. “Revolutionary Change in Central Asia,” World Affairs, Spring 2006.
“Putin’s Foreign Policy toward Syria,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, March 2006.
“Primakov Redux? Putin’s Pursuit of ‘Multipolarism’ in Asia,” Demokratizatsiya, Winter 2006.
“Iran and America: Is Rapprochement Finally Possible?” Middle East Policy, Winter 2005.
“Transnational Revolutionary Ideologies,” Society, September/October 2005.
“Less Than Great Expectations: The Pakistani-Russian Rapprochement,” Current History, March 2005.
“Putin’s Pro-Israel Policy,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2005.
“Exploiting Rivalries for Prestige and Profit: An Assessment of Putin’s Foreign Policy Approach,” Problems of Post-Communism, May-June 2005.
“Assessing the Political Stability of Oman,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, September 2004.
“Saudi-Russian Relations Since 9/11,” Problems of Post-Communism, March-April 2004. “Democratic Revolutions: Why Some Succeed, Why Others Fail,” World Affairs, Winter 2004.
“Losing Balance: Russian Foreign Policy toward Iraq and Iran,” Current History, October 2003.
“Playing the Angles: Russian Diplomacy Before and During the War in Iraq,” Middle East Policy, Fall 2003.
“What Do We Do If the Saudi Monarchy Falls?” Comparative Strategy, January-March 2003.
“Breaking the Yemen-Al Qaeda Connection,” Current History, January 2003.
“Osama bin Laden as Transnational Revolutionary Leader,” Current History, February 2002.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Putin Era,” Demokratizatsia, Winter 2002. “Revolution: Refining Its Defining” (with J. Milton Yinger), International Journal of Group Tensions, Winter 2001.
“Saudi-Russian Relations in the Putin Era,” The Middle East Journal, Autumn 2001. “Unfaithful Allies,” Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, Summer 2001. "The Embourgeoisement of Revolutionary Regimes: Reflections on Abdallah Laroui," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, July-September 1998.
"Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East," The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 1996 [1998].
"The Khatemi Factor: How Much Does It Matter?" The National Interest, Spring 1998-- expanded version published as "The United States and Iran: Ready for Rapprochement?" SAIS Review, Summer-Fall 1998.
"Election Day in Aden," Middle East Policy, September 1997.
"Central Asian Stability: Under Threat?" SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 1997--updated and abridged version published as "Tajikistan and Russia: Sources of Instability in Central Asia," Caspian Crossroads, Spring 1997.
"An Emerging Russian-Iranian Alliance?" Caspian Crossroads, Winter 1995/96. "Africa's Borders: European Borders, Contested Rule," Current History, April 1995. "Nationalism and the Legacy of Empire," Current History, October 1994--reprinted in Helen E. Purkitt, ed., World Politics 95/96 (Dushkin Publishing Group, 1995).
"Emerging Patterns in the International Relations of Central Asia," Central Asia Monitor, nos. 1-2, 1994.
"The Legacy of Empire in International Relations," Comparative Strategy, October- December 1993.
"Mechanisms of Russian-American Conflict Resolution," International Journal of Group Tensions, Spring 1993.
"Analyzing the Changing Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Former USSR," Studies in Comparative Communism, June 1992.
"Yemeni Unity and Saudi Security," Middle East Policy, 1992--Arabic translation published in Abdu al-Sharif, ed., Political Studies on Yemen (American Institute for Yemeni Studies, 1996).
"Superpower Conflict Resolution: Lessons for the Future," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1991.
"Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy toward Regional Conflicts," The Washington Quarterly, Winter 1991
"Uregulirovanie konfliktov sverkhderzhavami: uroki na budushchee" (Superpower Conflict Resolution: Lessons for the Future), SShA (USA--the journal of the USA and Canada Institute, Moscow), November 1990.
"Why Does the Cold War Continue in the Third World?" Journal of Peace Research, November 1990.
"Can the Superpowers Plot Peace?" The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1990. "The Decline of Soviet Power: Implications for International Relations," Survival, January-February 1990--revised version published in Estrategia (Lisbon), Spring 1990.
"Evolving Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Strategy," The Washington Quarterly, Summer 1989.
"Soviet Policy in the Middle East," Current History, February 1988--republished as "Gorbachev and the Middle East," Current, June 1988.
"Soviet Military Policy toward the Third World," The Washington Quarterly, Fall 1986. "Civil Conflict in South Yemen," Middle East Review, Fall 1986.
"The Soviet Union and the Third World," Current History, October 1986.
"The Anti-Soviet Insurgencies: Growing Trend or Passing Phase?" Orbis, Summer 1986. "Estrategies Sovietiques au Proche-Orient," (Soviet Strategies toward the Near East), Etudes Polemologiques (Paris), 1er trimestre 1985.
"Soviet Policy in the Gulf States," Current History, January 1985.
"Sanaa and the Soviets," Problems of Communism, January-February 1984.
"The Soviet-Cuban Connection," International Security, Summer 1983--republished as Brookings General Series Reprint, #399 (Brookings Institution, 1984).
"On the Significance of V.M. Kulish," Studies in Soviet Thought, April 1983. "The Origins of the Vietnam War," The Review of Politics, April 1980.
CHAPTERS
“Russian Policy in the MENA and Mediterranean Regions: Implications for Iran.” In Abdolrasool Divsallar, ed., Struggle for Alliance: Russia and Iran in the Era of War in Ukraine, Middle East Institute Policy Series (London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2024).
“Geopolitics and Russia: Implications of the Invasion of Ukraine for the BRI,” in Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Benjamin Houghton, and Jia Liu, eds., China Moves West: The Evolving Strategies of the Belt and Road Initiative (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023).
“How the War in Ukraine is Hitting the Middle East,” in Valeria Talbot, ed., The MENA Region in 2023: Where Do We Go Now? Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), 2022.
“Risk or Opportunity? How Russia Sees a Changing MENA Region,” in Karim Mezran and Valeria Talbot, eds., Evolving Mena Power Balances: What Is Next for Us Engagement in the Region? Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)/Atlantic Council, 2022.
“Different but Similar: Comparing Moscow's Middle East Policies in the Cold War and Putin Eras,” in Nikolay Kozhanov, ed., Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: New Trends, Old Traditions (London: Hurst/New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
“Putin’s Grand Strategy Toward the Middle East,” in Tore T. Petersen and Clive Jones, Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East: The Concepts and Debates (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2022).
“Russia and Israel: An Improbable Friendship,” in Dimitar Bechev, Nicu Popescu, and Stanislav Secrieru, eds. Russia Rising: Putin’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa (London: I.B. Tauris, 2021)—revised version of my “Russia and Israel: An Improbable Friendship,” in Nicu Popescu and Stanislav Secrieru, eds., “Russia’s Return to the Middle East: Building Sandcastles?” Chaillot Paper no. 146, European Union Institute for Security Studies, July 2018.
“Same Ends but Different Means: Change, Continuity and Moscow’s Middle East Policy,” in Karim Mezran and Arturo Varvelli, eds., The MENA Region: A Great Power Competition, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)/Atlantic Council, 2019.
The Sino-Russian and US-Russian Relationships: Current Developments and Future Trends (with Marcin Kaczmarski and Teija Tiilikainen), Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Report no. 57, December 2018. (My principal contribution: Chapter 2, “The US-Russian Relationship”)
“Syria and the Middle East: Fracture Meets Fracture,” in Anna Ohanyan, ed., Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond (Georgetown University Press, 2018).
“The Middle East,” (with Philipp Casula) in Andrei P. Tsygankov, ed., Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 2018).
“The US-Russia Relationship,” in Mika Aaltola et al., eds., Between Continuity and Change: Making Sense of America’s Evolving Global Engagement (Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2018).
“Putin and Russia’s Strategic Priorities,” in Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, and Michael Wills, eds., Strategic Asia 2017-18: Power, Ideas, and Military Strategy in the Asia-Pacific (Seattle and Washington, DC: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2017).
“Saudi Arabia and Russia,” in Neil Partrick, ed., Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy: Conflict and Cooperation (I.B. Tauris, 2016).
“Transnational Revolutionary Ideologies and Movements,” in Erik Brattberg and Daniel S. Hamilton, eds., Global Flow Security: A New Security Agenda for the Transatlantic Community in 2030 (Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2014).
“Mechanisms of Iran-US Rapprochement: Lessons from the Past,” in Fatima Al-Smadi and Malak Chabkoun, eds., Iran-US Rapprochement: Iran’s Future Role (Al Jazeera Center for Studies, 2014).
“Pakistan and the ‘War on Terror,’” in Rachel E. Utley, ed., 9/11 Ten Years After: Perspectives and Problems (Ashgate, 2012).
“Iran and Russia: Wary Cooperation,” in Michel Makinsky, ed., L’Iran entre les grands acteurs régionaux et globaux (L’Harmattan, 2012).
“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization—A View from the U.S.,” in Akihiro Iwashita, ed., Toward a New Dialogue on Eurasia: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Its Partners (Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, 2007).
“Russia’s Security Challenges,” in Akihiro Iwashita, ed., Eager Eyes Fixed on Eurasia, vol. 1: Russia and Its Neighbors in Crisis (Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, 2007).
“Prospective Impacts of Russia and Iran,” in Richard M. Auty and Indra de Soysa, eds., Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Lessons Not Learned (Routledge, 2006).
“Assessing Saudi Susceptibility to Revolution,” in Joseph A. Kechichian, ed., Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States (Palgrave, 2001).
“Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East,” in Manochehr Dorraj, ed., Middle East at the Crossroads: The Changing Political Dynamics and the Foreign Policy Challenges (University Press of America, 1999)—revised version of my article published in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 1996 [1998].
"Collapsed Empires," in Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson, eds., Managing Global Chaos (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1996).
"Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution," in I. William Zartman and Victor A. Kremenyuk, eds., Cooperative Security: Reducing Third World Wars (Syracuse University Press, 1995)--revised version of my article published in International Journal of Group Tensions, Spring 1993.
"Emerging Patterns in the International Relations of Central Asia," in Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha, eds., The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (M. E. Sharpe, 1995)--revised version of my article published in Central Asia Monitor, 1994.
"External Powers and the Yemeni Civil War," in Jamal S. al-Suwaidi, ed., The Yemeni War of 1994: Causes and Consequences (Saqi Books/The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1995).
"America's Post-Cold War Military Policy in the Third World," in Mohiaddin Mesbahi, ed., Russia and the Third World in the Post-Soviet Era (University Press of Florida, 1994).
"Analyzing the Changing Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Former USSR," in Andrew A. Michta and Ilya Prizel, eds., Postcommunist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform (St. Martin's Press, 1992)--revised version of my article published in Studies in Comparative Communism, June 1992.
"Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy toward Regional Conflicts," in Stanley J. Michalak, Jr., ed., Competing Conceptions of American Foreign Policy (Harper Collins, 1992)--revised version of my article published in The Washington Quarterly, Winter 1991.
"Soviet Military Policies in the Third World," (with Robert S. Litwak) in Bruce Parrott, ed., The Dynamics of Soviet Defense Policy (Wilson Center Press, 1990).
"Moscow and the Gulf War," in Christopher C. Joyner, ed., The Persian Gulf War: Lessons for Strategy, Law, and Diplomacy (Greenwood Press, 1990).
"Soviet Interests in the Gulf," in M.E. Ahrari, ed., The Gulf and International Security (Macmillan, 1989).
"The Evolution of the Brezhnev Doctrine under Gorbachev," in Kurt M. Campbell and S. Neil MacFarlane, eds., Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (Routledge, 1989).
"Gorbachev's African Policy," in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., Africa in the 1990s and Beyond (Reference Publications, 1988).
"Anti-Soviet Insurgencies: Growing Trend or Passing Phase?" in Roger E. Kanet, ed., The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Third World (Cambridge University Press, 1987)--revised version of my article published in Orbis, Summer 1986.
"Iraq and the Superpowers," in Frederick W. Axelgard, ed., Iraq in Transition (Westview Press/Mansell, 1986).
BOOK REVIEWS
“How Can Putin Best Be Understood?” in “Book Review Roundtable: Timothy Frye’s Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia,” Asia Policy, July 2022.
Review of Russia in the Middle East and North Africa: Continuity and Change, edited by Chiara Lovotti, et al., The Russian Review, January 2021.
Review of Russia’s Geostrategic Outlook and the Syrian Crisis, by Hicham Tohme, The Russian Review, October 2020.
Review of U.S.-Czech Missile Defense Cooperation: Alliance Politics in Action, by Michaela Dodge, National Institute for Public Policy Information Series, No. 467, September 21, 2020.
“Where Is Putinism Leading Russia?” in “Book Review Roundtable: Brian B. Taylor’s The Code of Putinism), Asia Policy, April 2019.
Review of External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies edited by Jonathan Fulton and Li- Chen Sim, Middle East Policy, Spring 2019.
Review of Russia’s Middle East Policy: From Lenin to Putin by Alexey Vasiliev, Middle East Policy, Winter 2018.
Review of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips, International Journal of Middle East Studies, November 2018.
Review of War in Syria: Russian Press Coverage, 2015-2017 compiled by East View Press, Middle East Policy, Autumn 2018.
Review of The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. Middle East Policy, Spring 2018.
Review of Russia and the New World Disorder by Bobo Lo. Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2016-17.
Review of Russian Foreign Policy under Dmitry Medvedev, 2008-2012 by Valerie A. Pacer. The Russian Review, October 2016.
Review of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Artemy M. Kalinovsky. Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 2015.
Review of Putin’s New Order in the Middle East by Talal Nizameddin, The Russian Review, October 2014.
Review of Russia, the West, and Military Intervention by Roy Allison, International Affairs, November 2013.
Review of Yemen on the Brink edited by Christopher Boucek and Marina Ottaway, Middle East Policy, Summer 2011.
Review of Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It by Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman, Middle East Policy, Spring 2011.
Review of The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East by Geoffrey Kemp, Middle East Policy, Winter 2010.
Review of Khatami and Gorbachev: Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR by Zhand Shakibi, Middle East Journal, Fall 2010.
Review of Russia and the Arabs: Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present by Yevgeny Primakov, Middle East Policy, Winter 2009.
Review of Persian Dreams: Moscow and Tehran since the Fall of the Shah by John W. Parker, Middle East Journal, Spring 2009.
Review of Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, Middle East Journal, Winter 2008.
Review of Central Asia: Views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing by Eugene Rumer, Dmitri Trenin, and Huasheng Zhao, Nationalities Papers, November 2007.
Review of At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941-1946 by Jamal Hasanli. Middle East Journal, Spring 2007.
Review of Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity by Andrei P. Tsygankov. Nationalities Papers, March 2007.
Review of Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War, by Steve A. Yetiv, Comparative Strategy, July-September 2004.
Review of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions, by Stephen E. Hanson, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Spring-Summer 2003.
“Contradictions in Russian Foreign Policy” (Review of The New Russian Diplomacy, by Igor S. Ivanov), Eurasianet, January 24, 2003.
Review of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991, by Jeff Goodwin; Sultanistic Regimes, ed. by H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz; and Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador’s FMLN and Peru’s Shining Path, by Cynthia McClintock. Studies in Comparative International Development, Winter 2003.
Review of Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy, by Talal Nizameddin, Russian Review, October 2002.
Review of Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin, by Michael McFaul, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, September 2002.
“The Coming Crisis in Central Asia” (Review of Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid), Eurasianet, March 1, 2002.
“Bin Laden Biography Raises Doubts” (Review of Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, by Yossef Bodansky), Eurasianet, October 27, 2001.
Review of States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua and the Philippines, by Misagh Parsa, International Journal of Middle East Studies, August 2001.
Review of Russia’s Liberal Project: State-Society Relations in the Transition from Communism, by Marcia A. Weigle, Studies in Comparative International Development, Winter 2001.
Review of Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power, by Fred Halliday, American Political Science Review, December 2000.
Review of Tensions in Arabia: The Saudi-Yemeni Fault Line, edited by Renaud Detalle, Middle East Journal, Autumn 2000.
Review of Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled, edited by Mikhail A. Alexseev, Nationalities Papers, September 2000.
Review of The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, by Robert V. Barylski, Slavic Review, Winter 1999.
Review of The Collapse of the Soviet Military, by William E. Odom, The Russian Review, July 1999.
Review of Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence, edited by Mohammad-Reza Djalili et al., Nationalities Papers, December 1998.
Review of Defiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age, by Paul Brooker, Middle East Quarterly, June 1998.
Review of Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967- 1973, by Fred Wehling, Middle East Quarterly, March 1998.
Review of Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition, by Tadeusz Swietochowski, Nationalities Papers, December 1996.
Review of Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal, by Diego Cordovez and Selig S. Harrison, The Russian Review, October 1996.
Review of Iran and Iraq: The Threat from the Northern Gulf, by Anthony H. Cordesman, MESA Bulletin, 1996.
Review of Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics, by James P. Nichol, Political Science Quarterly, Summer 1996.
Review of Beyond Soviet Studies, ed. by Daniel Orlovsky, International Affairs, October 1995.
Review of Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal, by Riaz M. Khan, International Journal, Autumn 1994.
Review of Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991, by R. Craig Nation, Slavic Review, Summer 1994.
Review of A Foreign Policy in Transition: Moscow's Retreat from Central America and the Caribbean, 1985-1992, by Jan S. Adams, The Journal of Politics, February 1994.
Review of Moscow and the Middle East, by Robert O. Freedman, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 1993.
Review of The USSR and Iraq, by Oles M. Smolansky, The Russian Review, October 1992.
Review of Soviet Policies in the Middle East from World War Two to Gorbachev, by Galia Golan, Russian History/Histoire Russe, 1992.
Review of The Dynamics of Soviet Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Michael Radu and Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, Slavic Review, Spring 1992.
Review of What Is Asia to Us? by Milan Hauner, Slavic Review, Winter 1991.
Review of The Bear and the Lion: Soviet Imperialism and Iran, by Martin Sicker, Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, 1991.
Review of Soviet Aims in Central America: The Case of Nicaragua, by G.W. Sand, Russian Review, October 1990.
Review of The Soviet Union and the Gulf in the 1980s, by Carol R. Saivetz, International Journal, Fall 1990.
Review of Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987, by Fred Halliday, American-Arab Affairs, Summer 1990.
Review of Soviet Strategy and Islam, by Alexandre Bennigsen et al., Middle East Journal, Summer 1990.
Review of Soviet-Egyptian Relations, 1945-85, by Mohrez Mahmoud El Hussini, Survival, September-October 1988.
Review of Soviet Policy in a Changing World, ed. by Robbin Laird and Erik Hoffmann, Slavic Review, Fall-Winter 1987.
Review of Soviet Power and the Third World, by Rajan Menon, Russian Review, July 1987.
Review of The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia, by Jacob Goldberg, Middle East Review, Winter 1986-87.
Review of The Soviet Union and the Yemens, by Stephen Page, Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, 1986.
"Soviet Third World Policy," Problems of Communism, July-August 1986.
Review of Soviet Perceptions of the Developing World in the 1980s, by Daniel S. Papp, American Political Science Review, June 1986.
Review of Third World Marxist-Leninist Regimes, by Uri Ra'anan et al., and U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World, ed. by John W. Sewell et al., The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1986.
Review of The USSR and Africa, by Morris Rothenberg, Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, 1984.
Review of Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy--Brezhnev to Andropov, by Jonathan Steele, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), May 27, 1984.
Review of Supplying Repression: U.S. Support for Authoritarian Regimes Abroad, by Michael T. Klare and Cynthia Arnson, and Beyond the “Vietnam Syndrome”: U.S. Interventionism in the 1980s, by Michael T. Klare, U.S. Naval War College Review, July-August 1983.
Review of Twilight of the Comintern, by E.H. Carr, The Press-Enterprise, May 22, 1983. Review of Lokal'nye voiny: istoriia i sovremennost' (Local Wars: History and Contemporaneity), ed. by I.E. Shavrov, Slavic Review, Fall 1982.
Review of U.S. Policy and Low-Intensity Conflict: Potentials for Military Struggles in the 1980s, ed. By Sam C. Sarkesian and William Scully, U.S. Naval War College Review, November-December 1981.
"A Warning Voice from the Past," Far Eastern Economic Review, September 25, 1981. Review of Vietnam: The View from Moscow, Peking, Washington, by Daniel S. Papp, U.S. Naval War College Review, July-August 1981.
Review of Asian Security in the 1980s: Problems and Policies for a Time of Transition, ed. By Richard H. Solomon, U.S. Naval War College Review, May-June 1981.
Review of Unequal Alliance: The Inter-American Military System, 1938-1978, by John Child, U.S. Naval War College Review, January-February 1981.
Review of The United States and Six Atlantic Outposts: The Military and Economic Considerations, by Edward W. Chester, U.S. Naval War College Review, July- August 1980.
“Ideals, Interests, and Arms Control,” Air University Review, July-August 1979.
Review of Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam, by Tran Van Don, U.S. Naval War College Review, May-June 1979.
Review of ‘Eurocommunism’: Implications for East and West, by Roy Godson and Stephen Haseler, U.S. Naval War College, May-June 1979.
Review of City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Birth of the Atomic Age, 1943-1945, by James W. Kunetka, Air University Review, May-June 1979.
Review of Soviet Air Power in Transition, by Robert P. Berman, U.S. Naval War College Review, Winter 1979.
Review of Controlling Future Arms Trade, by Anne Cahn et al., Arms Control Today, April 1978.
Review of To Avoid Catastrophe: A Study in Future Nuclear Weapons Policy, ed. by Canon Michael P. Hamilton, Arms Control Today, February 1978.
“Metternich and Kissinger,” Dialectic, Spring 1977.
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“Statement of Mark N. Katz,” The Threat of Islamic Extremism in Russia, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 114th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2015).
“Transnational Revolutionary Movements,” in James V. DeFronzo, ed., Revolutionary Movements in World History, (ABC-Clio, 2006).
Guest Editor, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 23:3 (1996)—published June 1999. "Cycles, Waves, and Diffusion," in Jack A. Goldstone, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, (Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1998).
"Yemen, Soviet Relations with," in Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 55 (Academic Press International, 1993).
"Statement of Mark N. Katz," Post-War Policy Issues in the Persian Gulf, Hearings before the Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security and Science, and on Europe and the Middle East; Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 102nd Congress, 1st Session (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991).
PRESENTATIONS
Panelist: “Shifting Sands: Navigating Russia and Iran’s Growing Collaboration and its Impact on the Middle East,” The National Security Institute, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, June 25, 2024
“What Underlies Moscow’s Good Relations with the US’s Middle East Partners in the Ukraine War Era?” The Russia Program Annual Conference, George Washington University, May 8, 2024
Panelist: “A New Nexus: How Can We Understand Russia and Iran’s Unprecedented Cooperation?” Atlantic Council, April 22, 2024
“Middle Eastern Responses to the Russia-Ukraine War,” Panel on “The Russian- Ukrainian War in Global Perspective,” International Studies Association 2024 Conference (San Francisco), April 6, 2024
“Understanding Russian-Middle Eastern Relations in the Putin Era,” University of Delaware Department of Political Science and International Relations, CRISP (Current Research in the Study of Politics), February 23, 2024
Panelist: “Understanding Russia’s Role in the Israel-Gaza Conflict,” New York-Russia Public Policy Series (co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia), January 31, 2024
Panelist: “The Iran-Russia Alliance: Opportunities, Limits, and Conflict in the Middle East,” Atlantic Council, November 2, 2023
Panelist, “Power Competition in the MENA Region: Shifting Relations since the Ukraine War,” Atlantic Council/Italian Institute for International Political Studies MED Regional Meeting on “New Power Dynamics in the MENA Region after the Ukraine Crisis,” September 18, 2023
“Great Power Regional Rivalry: Can America Still Pass the Mearsheimer Test?” Panel on “Great Power Politics,” International Studies Association 2023 Virtual Conference, August 4, 2023
Moderator, Book Talk with Diana Gaaleeva on Russia and the GCC: The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy, Gulf International Forum, March 9, 2023 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East: New Trends, Old Traditions,” Georgetown University Qatar Center for International and Regional Studies, November 9, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, Plenary Session on “The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on Eurasian Security,” Eurasia International University (Armenia) Summer Institute on “Russia-Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Shifting Geopolitics in Eurasia,” July 8, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on Russia-Iran Relations,” Middle East Institute, May 26, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “The Ukraine War: Causes, Authoritarian-State Collusion and Secret Intelligence as Public Press Knowledge,” Sofia University Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication (Bulgaria), May 10, 2022, (hybrid event)
Panelist, “The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East,” Middle East Policy Council, Capitol Hill Conference, April 22, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “NATO Response and the US Policy on Ukraine,” SETA Foundation, April 20, 2022 (via Zoom)
Discussant, “Can Russia Manage its New Role in the Middle East?” Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs/Center for Middle Eastern Studies Middle East Seminar, April 7, 2022 (via Zoom)
“Moscow’s Moment: Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of Putin’s Policy toward the Middle East,” Panel on “The Multi-Faceted Nature of Russian-Middle Eastern Relations,” International Studies Association annual convention, March 29, 2022 (virtual panel)
Panelist, “The Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Implications for Yemen,” King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (Saudi Arabia), March 23, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “Russia's Southern Game: NATO's Southern Flank after the Ukraine Invasion,” German Marshall Fund, March 15, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “The Shifting Geopolitical Landscape in the MENA Region,” Swedish Institute of International Affairs, March 10, 2022 (via Zoom)
“Putin’s Policy toward Ukraine,” World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California, March 8, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “Energy Flows and Military Escalation: How Does the War in Ukraine Affect the Gulf?” Gulf International Forum, March 8, 2022 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “Perspectives on World Order,” Kozmetsky Center of Excellence, St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX), Seventh Annual Transatlantic Security Seminar, November 16, 2021 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics or the New Concert of Forces? The Prevention of War and Great Power Management,” Fourth International Symposium on Connecting the World and the Future, Shanghai International Studies University and Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies, November 5, 2021 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “Russia and the Middle East,” University Consortium [chaired by Oxford University] Corona Conversations 2021, October 6, 2021 (via Zoom)
“Afghanistan Collapse: Trouble for America’s Enemies,” Tennessee World Affairs Council, August 17, 2021 (via Zoom)
Panelist: “U.S.-Russia Conflict: Post Biden-Putin Summit,” Tennessee World Affairs Council, July 13, 2021 (via Zoom)
“Russia’s Syria Policy,” Harvard University Kennedy School Belfer Center “Russia Matters” Forum, June 8, 2021 (via Zoom)
“Russia and Iran” Tennessee World Affairs Council, May 4, 2021 (via Zoom) Panelist: “Russia and Iran,” University of Kansas Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence colloquium on “Iran: Red Teaming from the Inside Out,” April 22, 2021 (via Zoom)
“Russia and the Middle East,” Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference on “Russia and the Muslim World: Through the Lens of Shared Islamic Identities,” March 18, 2021 (via Zoom)
Panelist: Session on “World Disorder and Balance of Great Powers: Beyond the Dual Structure of Competition and Cooperation,” 3rd Annual Symposium on “Connecting the World and the Future,” Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, December 12, 2020 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “The Future of US-Russia Relations: Implications for the Middle East,” SETA Foundation, August 18, 2020 (via Zoom
“Russia and the Expiration of the UN Arms Embargo on Iran,” Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) CENTCOM/EUCOM Speaker Series, August 14, 2020 (via Zoom)
Panelist, “Four-Month Countdown to the Expiration of the UN Arms Embargo on Iran,” Atlantic Council, June 10, 2020 (via Zoom)
Co-organizer and Discussant, “Russia Is Now a Player in the Gulf: Does It Matter” G2K Zoom Conference, Columbia University, May 28, 2020
“Russia’s Increasing Presence in the Middle East: What Are Putin’s Goals?” World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California/University of Redlands, January 14, 2020, Redlands, CA
Panelist, “The MENA Region: What’s Next After The Pax Americana?” MED Dialogues 2019, Italian Institute for International Political Studies/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, December 6-7, 2019, Rome, Italy
Panelist, “Roundtable: Russia and Asia Today,” Conference on “Russia and Asia in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” Yale University, MacMillan Center Program in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, November 15-16, 2019
Panelist, “After the U.S. Withdrawal: What’s Next for Russia and Turkey in Syria?” Georgetown University, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, November 5, 2019
Panelist, “New Policies for Old Actors: Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey,” Conference on “New Strategic Visions and Power Competition in the Middle East,” Atlantic Council, October 8, 2019
“Russian Grand Strategies toward the Middle East: Tsarist, Soviet, and Putinist,” Conference on “Grand Strategy: Mapping the Contemporary Middle East,” Durham University Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Historical Studies, September 4-5, 2019, Durham, UK
Panelist, “Russia’s Resurgence in the Middle East: How Does US Policy Meet the Challenge?” Atlantic Council, May 30, 2019, broadcast on C-SPAN2.
“Always Looming: The Russian Muslim Factor in Moscow’s Relations with Gulf Arab States,” Workshop on “Russia’s Islamic Diplomacy: Institutions, Informality, and Believers,” George Washington University Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies/Central Asia Program, April 29, 2019.
“Sino-Russian and US-Russian Relations: What Will Become of Them?” (with Marcin Kaczmarski), Finnish Institute of International Affairs, December 12, 2018.
“Not Getting Any Easier: Putin’s Middle East Balancing Act,” Workshop on “Russia’s Reshaped Role in the Middle East,” George Washington University Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies/Central Asia Program, December 7, 2018.
“Changing Great Power Politics and US-Russia Relations,” 5th Annual Helsinki Summer Session, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, August 21-22, 2018.
“Better than Before? Comparing Moscow’s Cold War and Putin-Era Policies toward Arabia and the Gulf,” Sir William Luce Lecture, Trevelyan College, Durham University (UK), June 14, 2018.
“Balancing Act: Russia between Iran and Saudi Arabia,” London School of Economics Middle East Centre Workshop on “Saudi Arabia and Iran: Beyond Conflict and Co-Existence?” May 8, 2018,
“Russian Policy Toward the Middle East Since the Arab Spring,” Panel on “Threat Imagery in Russia’s Foreign Policy,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, April 7, 2018, San Francisco.
“America’s Dilemma: Dealing with Multiple Adversaries Simultaneously,” Panel on “United States Decision-Making and Deciders,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, April 5, 2018, San Francisco.
“Russia and the Middle East: Putin’s Balancing Act,” St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, February 28, 2018.
“What Do They See in Him? How the Middle East Views Putin and Russia,” School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, February 7, 2018
“Russian Security Policy,” NORAD/USNORTHCOM Academic Symposium, Panel on “International Security Dynamics from a Global Perspective,” December 4, 2017, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Russia-Iran,” Conference on “Iran in the World,” Trinity University, October 20-21, 2017, San Antonio, TX.
“Prospects for Russian, American, and European Cooperation in the Middle East,” Workshop on “Russia in the Mediterranean: Strategies and Aspirations,” Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Regional Program South Mediterranean, September 25-26, 2017, Tunis, Tunisia.
“Russian Threat Perceptions and Policy Responses under Putin,” Dialogue between Japan and Finland on Russian Politics and Economy, University of Helsinki, Aleksantari Institute/Hokkaido University Slavic-Eurasian Research Center/Hokkaido University Europe Office in Helsinki, June 13, 2017.
“The Evolution of U.S. Threat Perceptions,” Tallinn University (Estonia) International Relations Society Spring Forum on International Security, May 11, 2017.
“The Changing Dynamics between the US and Russia in the Middle East: How Will the Relationship between the Big Powers Affect the Conditions for Peace in Syria?” (with Volker Perthes and Wolfgang Mühlberger), Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, April 24, 2017.
“Moscow and the Middle East: What Does Putin Want?” M.I.T. Security Studies Program and International Science and Technology Initiatives “Focus on Russia” speaker series, March 9, 2017.
“Will Washington and Moscow Work Together in the Middle East?” (with Marie Mendras and Bessma Momani), The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, March 6, 2017.
“Russia’s Middle East Strategy and the Trump Administration,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, Middle East Program, January 6, 2017.
“Russia’s Role in the Middle East” (with Max Abrahms and Edward “Skip” Gnehm), George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs (Middle East Policy Forum and Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies), October 4, 2016.
“Putin’s Policies toward the Middle East: Dizzy with Success?” Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Russia-Eurasia Forum, September 14, 2016.
“Examining GCC-Russia Relations,” The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, July 13, 2016.
“Russia’s Objectives in the Middle East,” The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, May 25, 2016.
“Russia and the Middle East,” Foreign Policy Forum, George C. Marshall International Center, Leesburg, VA, May 19, 2016.
“Russia and the Middle East: What Does Putin Want?”(with Paul du Quenoy), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 6, 2016.
“The Perils of Putin: Russia’s Foreign Policy toward the Middle East,” Turbulent World Seminar Series, University of Cambridge. Co-sponsored by Pembroke College; the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies; and the Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa, January 13, 2016.
“Russian Military Invasion in Syria,” University of South Florida Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, November 18, 2015.
“Russian Intervention in Syria,” University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, October 21, 2015.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Ukraine,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, March 23, 2015.
“Russia, Ukraine, and the West,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, March 13, 2015.
“The Russian Intervention in Ukraine and its Impact on Relations with the West,” CERI Sciences Po, Paris, March 4, 2015.
“Ukraine and Russian-American Relations,” Moscow State Institute of International Relations International Conference on “Russia-US-EU: Prospects of Constructive Dialogue,” May 29, 2014.
“Trying to Shut Pandora’s Box: Putin’s Policy toward Syria and Iran,” Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, February 12, 2014.
“Deciphering Russian Policy on Syria,” Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 7, 2013.
“Russia and the Conflict in Syria: Four Myths,” Panel on “Russian Foreign Policy: Threats and Opportunities in Putin’s Third Term,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, April 5, 2013.
“Will There Be a Russian Spring?” World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, March 8, 2013.
“Russia and Syria,”
4) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, October 19, 2012;
3) Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, September 26, 2012;
2) Middle East Roundtable, Office of Politico-Military Affairs—Middle East, Joint Staff (J5), U.S. Department of Defense, The Pentagon, September 18, 2012;
1) Middle East Policy Council, Quarterly Capitol Hill Conference, July 23, 2012.
“Russian-Iranian Relations: Implications for U.S. Policy,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 24, 2012.
“Russia and the Arab Uprisings of 2011,” Panel on “Russia’s Foreign Policy: Explaining
Dmitri Medvedev’s Momentum,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, April 1, 2012.
“Why Does Russia Support the Assad Regime?” Middle East Institute, March 15, 2012. “The War on Terror and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, MA, February 13, 2012.
“Implications for the Middle East Agenda,” Panel on “Regional Economic and Security Challenges,” Center for Strategic and International Studies Conference on “The Big Caucasus: Old Ethno-Political Conflicts and New Geopolitical Design,” October 25, 2011.
“The War on Terror: Comparisons with the Cold War,” Symposium on “Ten Years after 9/11: Analyses and Reflections,” Michigan State University, September 15, 2011.
“What Would a Democratic Russian Foreign Policy Look Like?”
2) New Zealand Institute of International Affairs/University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, August 4, 2011;
1) New Zealand Institute of International Affairs/University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 3, 2011.
“2011: The Arab World’s 1989 or 1848?” New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Conference on “The Arab Spring: Its Origins, Implications, and Outlook,” Wellington, New Zealand, August 2, 2011.
“Russia and the Arab Uprisings of 2011,” Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Student Forum for Russian and Eurasian Policy at SAIS conference on “Russia and Eurasia: 20 Years after the Soviet Union,” April 14, 2011.
“Iran and Russia,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Joint Area Centers Symposium on “Iran at Large: The Global Emergence of a Regional Power?” April 2, 2011.
“Russia and the 2011 Popular Uprisings in the Middle East,” Georgetown University, Professionals in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Affairs/Middle East North Africa Forum/Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, March 24, 2011.
“Iran and Russia,” Iran Primer IV Panel, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, March 15, 2011.
“Russia and the Arab Uprisings of 2011,” George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, February 15, 2011.
“America’s ‘War on Terror’ after Iraq and Afghanistan,” Middle East Institute, January 19, 2011.
“The War on Terror in Perspective,” Middle East Policy Council Breakfast Discussion, November 30, 2010.
“Iran-Russia Relations,” Regional/International Dimensions Working Group, Stimson Center/U.S. Institute of Peace Iran Study Group, May 12, 2010.
“Russian Policy in the Greater Middle East: Trying to Keep Out of Trouble,” Kennan Institute U.S. Alumni Series, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, May 10, 2010.
“Russian Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Symposium on Afghanistan and Pakistan, University of South Florida, March 25, 2010.
“The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in the 21st Century,” Africa Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, March 16, 2010.
“The Cold War and the War on Terror,” Oriental Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, March 15, 2010.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era,” International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, February 18, 2010.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era,” Middle East Institute, Washington, DC, January 28, 2009.
“The US-Russia-Iran Triangle: Right, Acute, or Obtuse?” New York University, Wagner School, November 18, 2009.
“Russia and the Middle East,” Middle East Policy Council Capitol Hill Conference on “Major World Powers and the Middle East,” October 23, 2009.
“Can We Engage Iran?” Engagement Panel, Symposium on “Iran: Threat, Challenge, or Opportunity?” Middle East Strategy at Harvard, Harvard University, April 30, 2009.
“Who Is Putin’s Role Model?” Panel on “Authoritarian Rule in Comparative Perspective: Origins, Sustenance, Transitions,” GMU PIA Dept, Middle East Studies Program, Global Affairs Program, Central Asia Studies Program, and Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, April 29, 2009.
“Russia and the Middle East,” Russia-Eurasia Forum, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, January 28, 2009.
“The Russian Challenge,” Conference of Defence Associations Institute 25th Annual Defence Seminar, February 26, 2009, Ottawa, Canada
“Looking Beyond Georgia: Paralysis on Iran?” National Iranian American Council Policy Briefing, Rayburn House Office Bldg., September 11, 2008.
“Is Russia a Great Power in the Middle East?” Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies/IDC Herzliya Institute for Eurasian Studies Conference on “Russia, the Middle East, and the Challenge of Radical Islam,” April 9, 2008, Jerusalem, Israel.
Discussant, Panel on “Kennedy Comes of Age: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) at 21,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 27, 2008, San Francisco (also chaired this panel).
“The Russian Geo-Economic Vision,” GMU Center for Global Studies conference on “South-South Cooperation and Global Trade: Bypassing the Hegemon?” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 21, 2008.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad Era,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Middle East Program and Kennan Institute, February 29, 2008.
“Russian Foreign Policy in 2008,” Savannah Council on World Affairs, January 17, 2008.
“Moscow and the Middle East,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, New Orleans, November 16, 2007.
“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization—A View from the U.S.,” Sasakawa Peace Foundation Symposium “Toward a New Dialogue on Eurasia: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Its Partners,” July 18, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.
Discussant, Panel on “Sea and Land Security in Eurasia,” Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center 2007 Summer International Symposium, July 4-6, 2007, Sapporo, Japan.
“Putin’s Policy toward the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,”
2) Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center (Sapporo, Japan), June 27, 2007.
1) U.S.-Japan Dialogue on Russia and Northeast Asia, Kennan Institute/Wilson Center Asia Program, April 12-13, 2007.
“Will There Be Revolution in Central Asia?” Panel on “New Approaches to the Study of Transition and Conflict Resolution in Central Asia and the Transcaucasus,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, February 28- March 3, 2007.
“Russian-Algerian Relations: Partners or Competitors?” Kennan Institute/Wilson Center Africa Program, January 29, 2007.
Discussant, Panel on “New Developments in Central Asia,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Washington, DC, November 16, 2006.
“Russian Policy toward Hamas and Hezbollah,” U.S. Department of State Roundtable Discussion on “New Directions in Russian Foreign Policy: The Middle East and China/Central Asia,” September 18, 2006.
“Russia’s Security Challenges,” 2006 Summer International Symposium, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 6-7, 2006.
“Primakov Redux: Putin’s Pursuit of Multipolarism in Asia,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Salt Lake City, November 5, 2005.
“Can Europe Be a Superpower?” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, May 20, 2005.
“Iran, Islamic Revolution, and World Order,” Center for Text Collections, Ofice of the Supreme Leader’s Representative to the Universities of Qom, Qom, Iran, May 18, 2005.
“Iranian-Russian Relations”
2) Center for Strategic Research, Tehran, May 17, 2005;
1) Institute for Political and International Studies, Tehran, May 17, 2005.
“Is Revolution Predictable?” International Institute for Caspian Studies, Tehran, May 16, 2005.
“Exploiter or Exploited: Evaluating Putin’s Foreign Policy,” International Studies Association annual meeting (Honolulu), March 2, 2005.
“Russia’s Game in the Persian Gulf,” Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired (DACOR), December 10, 2004.
“Russian-American Relations,” Institute for the USA and Canada, Moscow, September 10, 2004.
“Democratic Revolutions: Why Some Succeed, Why Others Fail,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 28, 2003.
“Playing the Angles: Russian Diplomacy Before and During the War in Iraq,” Kennan Institute/Wilson Center, May 29, 2003.
“Prospective Impacts of Russian-Iranian Relations,” Conference on “Caspian Sea Basin Security,” University of Washington, April 29-30, 2003, and again at the National Bureau for Asian Research’s “Caspian Energy Workshop,” Washington, DC, May 8-9, 2003.
“Russian Foreign Policy After Iraq,” Panel on “Russia and Beyond: A View of the Future,” University of North Carolina Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies Conference on “Contemporary Security Challenges in Eurasia,” April 10-12, 2003.
“Russian-Iraqi Relations After 9/11,” Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, September 18, 2002
“America and the Middle East,” Secretary’s Open Forum, U.S. Department of State, May 22, 2002
Discussant, Panel on “Nationalism: Historical Antecedents and Future Path,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, March 27, 2002.
“How Russia Views the Middle East and South Asia,” DACOR Bacon House Foundation, February 1, 2002.
“The Russian-Iranian Partnership: Strategic or Tactical?” Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 24, 2001.
“Saudi-Russian Relations in the Putin Era,”
6) International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, March 27, 2002;
5) U.S. Department of State, Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia, August 8, 2001;
4) Middle East Institute, June 19, 2001;
3) Institute of Africa and Arabia, Moscow, May 23, 2001;
2) Shell International, London, May 17, 2001;
1) U.S. Embassy, Riyadh, May 13, 2001.
“The New Russian-Iranian Partnership,” London School of Economics Middle East Forum, May 17, 2001.
Discussant, Panel on “Domestic Dilemmas of National Security in Russia,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meting, Alexandria, VA, March 2, 2001.
“U.S.-Iranian Relations,” National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations 8th Annual State Committee Directors’ Symposium, November 3, 2000.
“Assessing Saudi Susceptibility to Revolution,” UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Conference on “Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States,” May 3-4, 2000.
“Democracy Revolution and the Future: Reflections on Goodwin vs. Selbin,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, March 18, 2000.
Chair, panel on “Political Perspectives on State Building in the Arabian Peninsula,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 20, 1999.
“Fundamental Differences: Relations among Islamic Revolutionary Actors,” Middle East Institute, November 10, 1999.
“Russia and the Former USSR: Dilemmas for American Foreign Policy,” Virginia Center for the Teaching of International Studies “Russia and the Other Former Soviet Republics in Transition,” Workshop for Middle/High School Social Studies and Foreign Language Teachers, Fauquier High School, September 25, 1999.
“Ressentiment in the Foreign Policy of Revolutionary Regimes,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 3, 1999.
“Responding to Revolution in the Post-Cold War Era: Reflections on `Dictatorships and Double Standards’ at Twenty,” International Studies Association Convention, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1999.
"Saudi-Yemeni Relations," Workshop on "Continuity and Change in Yemen, 1978- 1998," Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 3-6, 1998.
Discussant, Panel on "Regional and International Relations," Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies "Yemen in Focus" Miniconference, October 1, 1998.
"Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves."
2) Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Forum, March 25, 1998.
1) Northern Virginia Community College--Loudoun Campus, November 14, 1997.
"Relative Deprivation in the Post-Cold War Era," Panel on "Revolution in the Post-Cold War Era," International Studies Association Convention, Minneapolis, March 17-21, 1998.
Participant, Panel on "Dynamics of National Independence," International Studies Association Convention, Minneapolis, March 17-21, 1998.
"Why We Contain, Why We Engage," National Capital Area Political Science Association Conference on "Engagement or Containment: American Policy toward Revolutionary Regimes," November 18, 1997.
Participant, Panel on "Politics and Government: Tribesmen, Muslims, Democrats, Yemenis," U.S. Department of State Ambassadorial Seminar on Yemen, November 12, 1997.
"The Embourgeoisement of Revolutionary Regimes," International Studies Association- West conference, University of California at Davis, October 18, 1997.
"Islamic Revolution: Will It Spread? Will It Collapse?" Cleveland Council on World Affairs, October 8, 1997.
"Russia's Future: For Better or for Worse?" Akron Council on World Affairs, October 8, 1997.
Participant, Roundtable Discussion on "The Yemen Parliamentary Election," Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, May 19, 1997.
"When the Revolution Comes: Implications of an Islamic Gulf," United Association for Studies and Research, May 15, 1997.
"Russia and the Eurasian Transit Corridor," U.S. Department of State Conference on "The Effects of Oil and Gas Development in the Caspian Sea Basin," May 14, 1997.
"Responding to Revolution: Dilemmas for Status Quo Powers," George Mason University Institute for Public Policy Colloquium, January 23, 1997.
Chair, Plenary Session on "Communist Systems in Transition," National Capital Area Political Science Association Spring Conference, March 9, 1996.
Discussant, Panel on Central Asia, National Bureau of Asian Research and International Research and Exchanges Board Conference on "The New Russia/CIS in Asia," October 6, 1995.
Discussant, Panel on Saudi-Yemeni Relations, U.S. Department of State "Seminar on Saudi Arabia," April 27, 1995.
"Chechnya: Background and Implications," Akron Council on World Affairs, January 31, 1995.
"Revolutionary Waves: Marxist-Leninist, Arab Nationalist, and Islamic Fundamentalist."
2) Faculty Colloquium, GMU Department of Public and International Affairs, October 18, 1995.
1) Faculty Seminar Series on the Middle East, Hiram College, January 30, 1995.
"International and Regional Implications of the Yemeni Crisis," School of Oriental and African Studies Conference on "Lights on the Yemeni Crisis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives," London, September 23, 1994.
"Political Change and the Prospects for Islamic Fundamentalism in the Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia," Shell International Petroleum Co., London, September 22, 1994.
"External Powers and the Yemeni Civil War," The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research Symposium on "The Yemeni Civil War: Causes and Consequences," July 26-27, 1994. Conference held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
"Democratization and the Legacy of Empire in Africa," Institute on African Affairs Fourth Annual Conference on African Policy Issues, March 22, 1994.
Discussant, Conference on Foreign Policy Priorities, Decision-Making and Foreign Policies of the Southern NIS, Russian Littoral Project (University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies), March 21, 1994. Conference held at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Chair, Plenary Session on "American Policy toward Eastern Europe and the Former USSR," National Capital Area Political Science Association Spring Conference, March 19, 1994.
"The Emergence of Non-Russian Nationalism: The Legacy of the Soviet Empire," Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Internacionais Conference on "The Reemergence of Aggressive Nationalism and Europe," Lisbon, Portugal, November 18, 1993.
"Understanding Islamic Revolution: Lessons from Marxist Revolution."
4) Washington Irving Center, Madrid, Spain, November 16, 1993.
3) Autonomous University of Madrid, November 16, 1993.
2) Center for National Defense Studies, Madrid, November 15, 1993.
1) George Mason University Institute for Public Policy Colloquium, October 21, 1993.
"The Crisis in Moscow," George Mason University Department of Public and International Affairs Colloquium, October 5, 1993.
"Post-Soviet Security Issues," Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies/IREX Policy Forum, September 29, 1993.
"Emerging Patterns in the International Relations of Central Asia."
2) Foreign Service Institute, Central Asia Advanced Area Studies Course, December 14, 1993.
1) National Bureau for Asian Research (Seattle) Conference on "The Formation of New States in Central Asia and Kazakhstan: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges." Conference held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 22-23, 1993.
"Iran in the Nineties," Cleveland Council on World Affairs, John Hay Forum, September 17, 1993.
"Security Issues in Europe: Emerging Enmities and Alliances," George Mason University International Institute Conference on "Forces Shaping Twenty-First Century Europe," May 4, 1993.
"Yemen's Role in Regional Security," Yemen Political Science Association, Sanaa, Yemen, September 21, 1992.
"Report from Iran," George Mason University Department of Public Affairs Faculty Colloquium, March 27, 1992.
"America's Military Policy in the Third World in the Post-Cold War Era," Conference on "The Transformation of the Former USSR and its Implications for the Third World," The Institute for Political and International Studies, Tehran, Iran, March 2-4, 1992.
"The Commonwealth of Independent States and the Third World," Washington Strategy Seminar, January 29, 1992. Seminar held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Discussant, Panel on "Post-Cold War Soviet Middle East Policies," 23rd Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Miami, November 25, 1991.
"The Global Impact of the Decline of Soviet Power," 23rd Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Miami, November 24, 1991.
"New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy," Salisbury State University (Salisbury, MD) Fall 1991 Lecture Series on "Images of the Soviet Union," November 4, 1991.
"Changing Soviet Foreign Policy and Regional Conflict: The Case of Africa," Conference on "Euro-African Relations to the Year 2000," Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Internacionais, Lisbon, Portugal, June 13-15, 1991.
"The Soviet Union in the Third World: The Naval Role," Symposium on "Seapower and the Soviets: Issues for the 1990s," Center for Naval Analyses, June 10-11, 1991.
"Soviet Policy in the Middle East," Symposium on "Soviet Foreign Policy," American University School of International Service, May 11, 1991.
"Mechanisms of Soviet-American Conflict Resolution," Conference on "Conflict Reduction in Regional Conflict," April 29-May 3, 1991. Conference held at the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy.
"Does the Soviet Union Still Matter in the Middle East?"
2) Testimony before the Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security and Science, and on Europe and the Middle East; Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, April 11, 1991.
1) Middle East Program, Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, February 20, 1991.
"The Emerging Shape of the Post-Cold War Era," (with T. Knutsen), George Mason University Department of Public Affairs Colloquium, October 26, 1990.
"The Decline of Soviet Power: Implications for International Relations."
4) Soviet Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, October 24, 1990.
3) Colloquium on "Political Change in the Gorbachev Era," Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Political Science, April 20, 1990.
2) Soviet Affairs Working Group, The Heritage Foundation, April 13, 1990.
1) Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Internacionais Conference on "European Security in a Multipolar World," Lisbon, Portugal, November 10, 1989.
"Gorbachev and the Third World: Changing Relations," Conference on "Change and Continuity: East-West and North-South," sponsored by the Friedrich-Naumann- Stiftung, September 28, 1990. Conference held in New York City.
Participant, Panel Discussion on "The Republic of Yemen and the Crisis in the Gulf," sponsored by the Middle East Institute and the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, September 25, 1990.
Discussant, Committee Discussion on "Soviet Futures: Union, Federation or Secession?" 32nd Annual Conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, September 6-9, 1990. Conference held in Hot Springs, VA.
"Latin America in an Era of Soviet Decline," Dialogue Workshop on the "Changing Global Context for U.S.-Latin American Relations," sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue, May 24, 1990. Conference held at Airlie House, Warrenton, VA.
"Superpower Conflict Resolution: Lessons for the Future," Conflict Reduction in Regional Conflicts Conference, May 14-18, 1990. Conference held at the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy.
"Change in the Soviet Union and the Future of U.S.-Middle East Relations."
3) Sanaa University, Yemen Arab Republic, May 12, 1990.
2) Yemen Arab Republic Foreign Ministry, May 10, 1990.
1) Egyptian Foreign Service Officer Foreign Policy Seminar, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, April 26, 1990.
"The Soviet Response to the Reagan Doctrine," Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 11, 1990. Convention held in Washington, DC.
Discussant, Panel on "The Security Environment in the Third World: Weapons and Conflict," Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 11, 1990.
Participant, Panel Discussion on "The Impact of Change in Eastern Europe," George Mason University, March 26, 1990. Panel discussion organized by the Office of the Associate Vice President.
"Strategies for the Future: Models of Superpower Conflict Resolution," Conference on "Internal Security Negotiations," Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, March 13, 1990.
"After the Wall: The Future of Superpower Conflict Resolution in the Third World," U.S. Institute of Peace, March 1, 1990.
"Discussant, Panel on "Whither Relations with Moscow?" Conference on "Is Castro's Revolution Running Out of Steam?" The Orkand Corporation, December 7, 1989.
"Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World."
5) Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, December 4, 1989.
4) Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, October 13, 1989. Conference held at the University of Virginia.
3) Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 5, 1989.
2) 20th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 18, 1988. Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1) Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Dhaka, Bangaladesh, March 9, 1988.
"Opportunities and Obstacles to Soviet-American Conflict Resolution."
3) U.S. Institute of Peace Conference, University of Texas, Austin, November 14, 1989.
2) U.S. Embassy, Dublin, Ireland, November 7, 1989.
1) Work-in-Progress Seminar, U.S. Institute of Peace, October 6, 1989.
European Security in the Context of Gorbachev," Centre for Peace Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin, Ireland, November 6, 1989.
Discussant, Panel on "Soviet Military Policy in the Third World," 21st Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2, 1989. Conference held in Chicago, IL.
"Changing Soviet Policy toward Africa," African Studies Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, October 24, 1989.
Panelist, Panel Discussion on "Are U.S. and Soviet Third World Interests Reconcilable?" at the Atlantic Council's "U.S.-Soviet Dialogue on East-West Relations in Transition." Conference held at the Department of State, June 6, 1989.
Discussant, U.S. Institute of Peace Conference on "Strengthening World Order and the United Nations Charter System." Conference held at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, April 28-29, 1989.
"Soviet Policy in the Middle East," Symposium on "New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy towards the Third World," Comparative Area Studies Program, Duke University, April 7, 1989.
"Evolving Soviet Perceptions of the U.S. National Security Process," National Defense University Symposium on "The National Security Process," December 1, 1988.
"The Evolution of the Brezhnev Doctrine under Gorbachev," U.S. Air Force Conference on Soviet Affairs, October 21, 1988.
"Soviet Policy toward the Persian Gulf."
8) Crypto-Linguistic Association, National Security Agency, June 16, 1988.
7) Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, Villanova University, May 21, 1988.
6) Middle East Institute, March 31, 1988.
5) U.S. Information Service, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, February 24, 1988.
4) Diplomatic Institute, Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 21, 1988.
3) U.S. Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 20, 1988.
2) National Defence College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, January 19, 1988.
1) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, November 19, 1987.
"Soviet Policy toward the Middle East."
2) Department of International Relations, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, March 12, 1988.
1) Department of Government and Politics, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, March 10, 1988.
"The USSR, the Third World and Afghanistan," American Cultural Center, Doha, Qatar, March 2, 1988.
Discussant, Panel on "The Middle East," Center for Strategic and International Studies Conference on "The Changing Soviet Challenge in the Third World," December 10, 1987.
"Soviet-Arab Relations," Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, November 19, 1987.
Panelist, Panel Discussion on "Foreign Policy," American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations Conference on "The Gorbachev Initiatives," October 30, 1987.
"Gorbachev's Africa Policy," World Peace Foundation Conference on "Africa in the 1990s and Beyond," October 8-10, 1987. Conference held in Melvin Village, NH.
"Soviet Views and Policies toward the Use of Military Power in the Third World" (with Robert S. Litwak), Conference on "Dynamics of Soviet Defense Policy," Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 23, 1987.
Panelist, Panel on "Balance of Power with NATO," Conference on "The Movement of Soviet Power," Brookings Institution Center for Public Policy Education, July 15, 1987.
"Soviet Perceptions of Iranian Threats to Gulf Security," Conference on "The Gulf and International Security," Mississippi State University Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, April 29, 1987. Conference held in Jackson, MS.
Discussant, Panel on "The Soviet Union and the Third World," International Studies Association Annual Convention, April 17, 1987. Convention held in Washington, DC.
"Writings of Soviet Military Specialists," University of Maryland at College Park, East- South Program, April 8, 1987.
"Soviet Techniques of Supporting Insurgencies," Workshop on "Unity of Insurgent Groups," Department of State, March 20, 1987.
"Third World Dictatorships in the Superpower Competition," Panel on "Gorbachev and the Communist World," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, November 22, 1986. Convention held in New Orleans.
Discussant, Panel on "Soviet Aid Policies in the Third World," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, November 21, 1986.
"Soviet Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula."
7) Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, November 10, 1986.
6) University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies, October 6, 1986.
5) Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program, October 22, 1985.
4) Voice of America Speakers' Series, May 9, 1985.
3) Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, April 17, 1985.
2) Rockefeller Foundation Conference on "Soviet Foreign Policy Behavior in an Uncertain World," November 12-16, 1984. Conference held in Bellagio, Italy.
1) Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, January 13, 1983.
Discussant, Seminar on "Soviet Relations with National Liberation Movements," Harvard University Russian Research Center, October 20, 1986.
"Anti-Soviet Insurgencies: Growing Trend or Passing Phase?"
6) The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, October 3, 1986.
5) Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, June 25, 1986.
4) Harvard University Center for Science and International Affairs Conference on "Soviet Attitudes toward Regional Security," February 28, 1986.
3) Ohio State University: a) Mershon Center for Research in National Security Policy, and b) the Slavic and East European Center, November 14, 1985.
2) 3rd World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, November 1, 1985. Congress held in Washington, DC.
1) Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet International Behavior, October 24-25, 1985.
"Soviet Foreign Policy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict."
2) University of California at Los Angeles Center for International and Strategic Affairs Conference on "Soviet-American Competition in the Middle East," September 29-30, 1986.
1) American Professors for Peace in the Middle East Panel on "Soviet Strategies in the Middle East," American Political Science Association Annual Convention, August 29, 1986. Convention held in Washington, DC.
"The USSR and Southern Arabia," and "Conclusion," Conference on "The USSR and Marxist Revolutions," Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 26, 1986.
"Soviet Views of Conflict in the Third World," Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, June 12, 1986. Conference held at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Panelist, "Regional Competition: Future U.S.-Soviet Directions," National Cryptologic School Conference on "The Soviet Union: The Road Ahead," May 8, 1986.
"Latin America in Soviet Third World Strategy: The Military Strategic Dimension," Princeton University Center of International Studies Conference on "Soviet-Latin American Relations," January 31, 1986.
"Soviet Strategy in the Third World," Center for Strategic and International Studies Conference on "The Challenge of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev," December 12, 1985.
Panelist, "Soviet Policy toward the Third World," Washington Strategy Seminar, June 20, 1985. Seminar held at the Brookings Institution.
"Iraqi Relations with the Superpowers," Center for Strategic and International Studies Seminar on "Iraq: Political, Economic and Strategic Perspectives," May 30, 1985.
Panelist, American Defense Institute Seminar on "U.S.-Soviet Rivalry for Influence in the Middle East," April 26, 1985.
Panelist, Stanford-in-Government Seminar on "Revolutionary Cuba: Toward Accommodation or Conflict?" February 6, 1985.
"The Third World in Soviet Military Thought."
9) Columbia University Harriman Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, January 31, 1985.
8) Institut Francais de Polemologie, Paris, September 18, 1984.
7) U.S. Embassy, Paris, September 17, 1984.
6) 17th Annual Congress of the Club de Relations Internationales, Universite de Montreal, February 17, 1984.
5) George Washington University Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, November 15, 1983.
4) Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 26, 1983.
3) Diplomatic Institute, Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Cairo, December 28, 1982.
2) Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Soviet Studies Program, September 29, 1982.
1) M.I.T. Department of Political Science, The Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, Pacific-Sierra Research Corp. (Arlington, VA), and The RAND Corp. (Washington, DC), all in 1981.
Participant, Stanley Foundation Conference on "U.S.-Soviet Competition in the Third World," October 11-13, 1984. Conference held at Airlie House, Warrenton, VA.
Discussant, Conference on "NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Third World," Kent State University Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies, April 11-12, 1984.
Panelist, "The Continuing Problem of Cuba," Inter-American Defense College, January 26, 1984.
"Soviet-Cuban Relations," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, October 17, 1982. Convention held in Washington, DC.
"The Superpowers and the Changing International System," International Institute for Strategic Studies/Arms Control Association Conference on "U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1980s," June 29-July 3, 1981. Conference held in Bellagio, Italy.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies:
Member, Program Committee, 1998 AAASS Annual Convention (responsible for selecting panels in the "International Relations: Russia/NIS" category);
Organized panel on "Gorbachev and the Third World," 1988 AAASS Annual Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 18, 1988;
Member, Editorial Committee to select papers for publication from the 3rd World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, 1985.
American Association of University Women (Falls Church branch): Led "Great Decisions" discussions, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000.
American Councils for International Education: Regional Scholar Exchange Program Selection Committee Member, April 2000 and April 2001.
American Political Science Association: Member, Summer 2023 Centennial Center Research Grants selection committee, June 2023
Atlantic Council: Member, Working Group on Libyan-American Relations, 2002-03.
Council for International Exchange of Scholars: Screening Committee Member, North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Fellowships Program, January 2000, January 2001, and January 2003.
Deakin University: External reviewer, promotion to full professor case, 2021.
Earhart Foundation: Reviewed grant proposal, January 2008.
Fulbright Program:
Member, 2022-23, 2023-24, and 2024-25 National Screening Committees: Reviewed U.S. student applications to U.K. universities.;
Reading Panelist, U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission, 2020-21 and 2021-22 selection processes: Reviewed U.K. student applications to U.S. universities
Hunter College:
External reviewer, promotion and tenure case, Department of Political Science, 1995.
International Institute for Strategic Studies:
Rapporteur, Committee Discussion on "International Security and the Forces of Nationalism and Fundamentalism," 33rd Annual IISS Conference, September 12-15, 1991. Conference held in Zurich, Switzerland;
Rapporteur, Committee Discussion on "The USSR and the Asia-Pacific Region," 31st Annual IISS Conference, September 11-14, 1989. Conference held in Oslo, Norway.
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX):
Senior Scholar, Caspian Sea Regional Symposium, January 26, March 14-18, 2002.
International Studies Association:
Organized panel on “The Multi-Faceted Nature of Russian-Middle Eastern Relations,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 29, 2022 (virtual panel);
Member, Executive Committee of the Post-Communist States in International Relations Section, May 2012-May 2015;
Organized panel on “Kennedy Comes of Age: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) at 21,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 27, 2008, San Francisco.
Organized panel on “Putin’s Foreign Policy” for the 2005 ISA Annual Convention, Honolulu, March 2, 2005.
Organized panel on “Revolution in the Post-Cold War Era: Reflections and Debates” for the 2000 ISA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, March 18, 2000.
Member, Program Committee for the 1999 ISA Annual Convention (responsible for selecting and organizing panels in the Post-Communist States in International Relations section).
Kennan Institute:
Contributor, “Russia in the Middle East: National Security Challenges for the United States and Israel in the Biden Era,” Kennan Institute (Wilson Center) and Institute for Policy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya), May 2021.
“Kennan Conversations,” Des Moines, IA, November 16, 2016; Nashville, TN, January 17-18, 2017; Stamford, CT, November 1-2, 2017; Redlands, CA, January 14, 2020; Nashville, TN (via Zoom), May 4, 2021.
Coordinator, Research Workshop Series on “Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Conflict in the Former Soviet Union,” February 28-March 1, 2003.
Organized conference on "The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World," September 25-26, 1986.
London School of Economics and Political Science: External Assessor, Major Review Candidate (equivalent of tenure), January 2012.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Organized colloquium on "Political Change in the Gorbachev Era," Department of Political Science, April 20, 1990, on the retirement of Professor William E. Griffith.
National Capital Area Political Science Association: President, 1999-2000;
Program Chair, Spring Conference, March 6, 1999;
Member, 1999 Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee; First Vice President, 1998-99;
Member, 1998 Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee; Organized Fall Conference on "Engagement or Containment: American Policy toward Revolutionary Regimes," November 18, 1997;
Second Vice President, 1997-98; Council Member, 1995-97.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Reviewed grant proposal, 1994.
Member, Humanities Projects in Media Review Panel, October 27-28, 1988.
National Science Foundation:
Reviewed grant proposals, 1994, 1998, 2007.
Oxford University:
External Examiner, D.Phil. dissertation, Department of Politics and International Relations, July 7, 2022 (via Microsoft Teams).
Referee, full professor candidate, April 2014.
Queen's University: External Examiner, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Studies, September 1995/January 1996.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Reviewed grant proposal, January 2013.
Stanley Foundation: Rapporteur, Conference on "The Soviet Union, United States, and the Middle East: The Challenges of Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution," April 4-7, 1990.
Conference held at the Wye Plantation, Queenstown, MD.
U.S. Department of State: Public Member, Foreign Service Selection Board G-II-A, July-August 2002.
U. S. Information Agency: USIA Speaker in France (September 1984), Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, North Yemen, and Bangladesh (February-March 1988), North Yemen (January 1989), Ireland and Portugal (November 1989), North Yemen (May 1990), Yemen (September 1992), and Spain and Portugal (November 1993); Participant, WorldNet television broadcast to Africa on "The Soviet Coup and the Media," September 5, 1991.
United States Institute of Peace:
Reviewed grant proposal, October 2007;
Member, Fellowship Review Panel, December 1995 and December 1996; Organized seminar series on "Opportunities and Obstacles to Soviet-American
Conflict Resolution in the Third World," 1989-90.
University of Arkansas:
External reviewer, promotion and tenure candidate, Dept. of Political Science, October 2000.
University of Central Florida:
External reviewer, full professor candidate, Dept. of Political Science, July 2011.
University of New Mexico:
External reviewer, full professor candidate, Dept. of Political Science, August- September 1999.
Washington and Lee University:
External reviewer, promotion and tenure candidate, Dept. of Sociology, December 2009.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars:
Reviewed fellowship applications, 1989, 1990, and 1991.
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Schar School of Policy and Government:
Member, Academic Exception Request Committee, February 2024; Member, Reappointment First-Level Liaison Committee, Fall 2022;
Chair, Full Professor Promotion First-Level Liaison Committee, Fall 2021; Member, Ph.D. in Political Science Admissions Committee, 2019-20, 2020-21; Member, Comparative Politics Comprehensive Examination Committee (January 2017, January 2019, May 2019, August 2021);
Chair, International Security Search Committee (September 2016-February 2017); Member, Political Science M.A. Research Project Assessment Committee, October 2016;
Chair, Full Professor Promotion First-Level Review Committee, Colin Dueck (Fall 2015);
Member, Reappointment Committee, Ahsan Butt (Fall 2014).
Department of Public and International Affairs:
Member, Faculty Annual Reports Evaluation Committee (Summers 2012, 2013, and 2014);
Member, Comparative Politics Comprehensive Examination Committee (2012- 13);
Member, Undergraduate Program Coordinator Search Committee (June 2011); Member, Barbara Knight Award Committee (Spring 2011);
Member, Biodefense Graduate Program Admissions Committee (Spring 2009); Member, Political Science Graduate Program Admissions Committee (Spring 2008);
Liaison for a Promotion (Full Professor) Candidate (Fall 2005); Member, American Foreign Policy Search Committee (Fall 2005); Member, Undergraduate Advisor Search Committee (Spring 2003); Member, Minority Recruitment Committee (2002-03);
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2001-02); Liaison for a Promotion and Tenure Candidate (Fall 2000); Chair, International Relations Search Committee (Fall 2000);
Chair, IR/Middle East Politics Restricted Search Committee (Spring 2000); Member, Committee to Consider an Administrative Faculty Member for Appointment, (Spring 2000);
Chair, Latin American Politics Search Committee (Fall 1999); Member, Faculty Annual Review Committee (Fall 1999); Member, Curriculum Committee (1997);
Chair, Teaching Evaluation Committee (1996-99); Organizer, Departmental Research Workshop (Spring 1996);
Organizer, lecture series on "Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era" (1993- 94);
Chair, International Relations Search Committees (1991-92 and 1992-93);
Member, Committee to Establish and Implement a Departmental Policy on Teaching (1991-92).
College of Humanities and Social Sciences:
Member, Global India Search Committee (Fall 2011);
Member, MESP Director Reappointment Committee (Fall 2009).
College of Arts and Sciences:
Chair, Director of Cultural Studies Program Reappointment Committee (Spring 2006);
Member, Dept. of Public and International Affairs Chair Search Committee (1997-98);
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (1996-97);
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Minor in Contemporary Europe, (1990-95, 1997-- 2000);
Member, Academic Policies and Plans Committee (1991-92).
International Institute:
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (1992-93).
University:
Member, Faculty Senate Committee on External Academic Affairs (2018-19, 2019-20);
Member, Graduate Fellowship Review Committee (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016);
Chair, Research Misconduct Inquiry Committee (Spring 2012); Member, Post Tenure Review Committee (12/05—2/06); Chair, Global Affairs Committee (2003);
Member, Faculty Study Leave Review Committee (1998 and 2006); Faculty Adviser, Pi Sigma Alpha (1997-98);
Faculty Adviser, Turkish Students Association (1997-2000);
Guest Lecturer, GMU Learning-in-Retirement Institute (1995, 1996, 2002); Faculty Adviser, Society for International Studies (1992-94);
Member, University Committee on Undergraduate Life (1991-92); Member, Executive Council for Intercultural Programming (1991-92); Member, International Education Committee (1991-92).
Areas of Research
- Russian Foreign Policy
- Foreign Policy
- International Relations
- Middle East
- Security Policy
- Revolution
- War on Terror