Dr. Stephen J. Blank is Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian, U.S., Asian, and European military and foreign policies, testified frequently before Congress on Russia, China, and Central Asia, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group.
Stephen has published or edited 15 books, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005). He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood, 1992).
The Latest from Stephen Blank
What will the Middle East look like in 2030? An Israeli Perspective
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Why Biden shouldn’t seek to deprive Iran of conventional deterrence
Iran and the Black Sea region: Tehran’s forgotten bridge to Europe
The tectonics of Middle Eastern geopolitics: Seismic signs in the Caucasus
Beyond the elite: Taking protest and public opinion seriously in the Kurdistan Region
Chinese Health Diplomacy and the Maghreb in the COVID-19 Era
Fossil fuel subsidies and renewable energies in MENA: An oxymoron?
Preventing the next crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations