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
A moment of reckoning as the US and Iran prepare to resume talks in Doha
حزب الله الحجاز: جماعة شيعية سعودية يكتنفها الغموض
Hezbollah Al-Hejaz: A Saudi Shi’a Group Cloaked in Mystery
Monday Briefing: EU, G7, and NATO summits break new ground, but still fall short of what Ukraine really needs
أُخُوة يخنقها العداء: التنافس الجزائري المغربي وتحديات الاندماج المغاربي
Brothers at arm’s length: Moroccan-Algerian rivalry and the challenge of Maghrebi integration
Staying the course … for now: Germany’s MENA policy under the Scholz government
Special Briefing: Egypt's parliament strikes back on the budget
MEI-NAPI Roundtable on the Environment in Tunisia: A Youth Perspective On Challenges & Opportunities
Will Erdogan’s Turkey Gain From the War in Ukraine?
Canada-Iran soccer row highlights the ongoing fight over Flight 752
Economic Diversification and Energy Transition in Iraq and the Gulf
Bridging the Cost Gap: Three Labor Policies to Close the Wage Gap Between Saudi and Foreign Labor