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
Economic Development and Security: Three Seas Initiative in the Black Sea
Monday Briefing: Regional reverberations of the Sudan-Israel announcement
What does a Trump or Biden presidency mean for Israel and Palestine?
Russian airstrike threatens to unravel Idlib’s relative stability
حلقة 12: السباق الرئاسي ونظرة لفهم ترامب وأنصاره — مع هبة نصر وحسين عبد الحسين
The Palestinians and U.S. Elections: What’s at Stake?
Proxies, spies and saboteurs: How Georgia can identify, resist and deter covert and deniable threats
Drifting attention: Why the Black Sea continues to matter
Using the Convention against Torture to hold Syria to account
Special Briefing: Lebanon one year on from the October uprising
US Policy and the Resurgence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria