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
Structural impediments to Iranian-Gulf Arab reconciliation
Monday Briefing: Iranian women’s uprising: Too personal and too political
Iraq’s crisis of elite, consensus-based politics turns deadly: The Coordination Framework
How to Overcome the Pitfalls of the Saudi-Iran Dialogue
MEI Defense Leadership Series: Episode 18 with former U.S. CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie
Art All Night: Exhibition Open House & Arabic Live Music
Iran’s hijab protests show the regime is unreformable
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His Excellency Rashad al-Alimi of the Republic of Yemen
America and Iran’s Tough Tango with the Gulf States