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
Is Trump’s “Deal of the Century” really a peace plan?
Migration, Investment, and Competition: The Middle East and the Horn of Africa
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If at first you don’t succeed: Turkey gears up for Istanbul election rerun
Iraq: A Conflict Over State Identity and Ownership
Challenges threaten the rise of Turkey’s defense industry
Forgotten Lives: Life Under Regime Rule in East Ghouta
Political Complexities of Return: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Economics and Entrepreneurship in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
The Middle East and its role in the global economy
Monday Briefing: Ships sabotaged in the Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran