Dr. Stephen Blank
U.S. Army War CollegeStrategic Studies Institute
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013
(717)245-4085 (phone)
(717)245-3820 (Fax) / 2838 North 2 Street
Harrisburg, Pa. 17110
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Summary
· Professor and Foreign Affairs Specialist with expertise in Russian, CIS, and East European military and foreign policies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Russian military doctrine, and U.S. military and foreign policy.
· Published and/or edited 14 books and monographs and over 500 articles.
· Developed and taught new innovative classes in international relations, Russian and Soviet history and politics increasing attendance by 40%.
· Organized and chaired major national and international conferences in London, Prague, Florence, Washington, Seattle, and New York obtaining funding from Columbia University, Pepperdine University, Univ. of Washington, and CSIS.
· Testified four times before congressional committees on Russian, Chinese and Central Asian policies.
· Delivered numerous public speeches and frequently appeared as a commentator on media at home and abroad (e.g. CNN, Izvestiya.
· Consultant for the CIA, The Rumsfeld Commission, Gerson Lerhman Group and Lexington Institute).
· Reviewed foundation grants applications for Smith Richardson Foundation.
· Fluent in French and Russian
Academic Credentials
1979-PH.D. Russian History University of Chicago
1972-MA Russian History University of Chicago
1971-BA History University of Pennsylvania
Political Science/International Relations Professor
Professional Experience
US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA 1989-2006
Professor of National Security Studies for Russian, CIS and Eastern European Studies
•Conducted research on Russian, CIS, and East European military and foreign policies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Russian military doctrine, strategy, policy, and tactics and U.S. military and foreign policy.
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US Army War College 1989-2006
•Published three annual studies each year since 1989 on Russian, CIS, and East European military and foreign policies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Russian military doctrine, strategy, policy, and tactics and U.S. military and foreign policy.
•Published over 500 articles and 14 books on Russian, CIS, and East European military and foreign policies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Russian military doctrine, strategy, policy, and tactics and U.S. military and foreign policy.
•Organized and chaired professional conferences, symposia and seminars in the United States, Europe and Asia partnering with American and foreign government representatives, as well as independent experts and academics
Air University, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education
Maxwell AFB Alabama 1986-89
Associate Professor of Soviet Studies Center
•Published 6 articles and co-edited studies on Soviet views of Missile defense and on low-intensity conflict
•Taught courses on low-intensity conflict, Soviet foreign policy in the Third World, Soviet politics
University of Texas San Antonio, Texas 1980-86
Assistant Professor of Russian History
•Published 5 articles on Soviet history
•Taught six courses a year on all phases of Russian history from medieval to the present, European cultural history, European diplomatic history, comparative European revolutions, graduate courses in European history, both halves of the Western Civilization survey. Head of department 1982-83, served on search committee.
University of California, Riverside California 1979-1980
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian History
•Published 2 articles on Soviet history
•Taught survey of Russian history, Soviet diplomatic history, and graduate courses in European history since 1890
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Other Positions
2006-Consultant to the Gerson Lehrman Group
2005-Member Board of Reviewers Cambridge Review of International Affairs
2004-Member, International Advisory Board, Defence Journal (Delhi)
2004-Member of Editorial Board, International Studies Perspectives
2003-Member, International Board of Advisors, Ankara Papers
2003-Member of Editorial Board, Comparative Strategy
2003-Member of SAIS' Northern European Study Group
2002-Member of Editorial Board, Defence Studies
2001-Member of Editorial Board, Review of International Affairs
1993-2006-Book Review Editor, Central Asian Survey
1998-Consultant to the Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States on Russian nuclear strategy and proliferation policy
1996-98 Member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Study Group on Russia-China Relations
Dr. Stephen Blank Publications
Books
Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command, London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006
Natural Allies?: Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation, Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2005
Editor, Mediterranean Security Into the Coming Millennium, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1999
Editor, NATO After Enlargement: New Challenges, New Missions, New Forces, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1998
Editor, Eurasian Security in the Era of NATO Enlargement, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1998
Editor, with Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Imperial Decline: Russia's Changing Role in Asia, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997
Editor, Yugoslavia's Wars: The Problem From Hell, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army Wars College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1995
Editor, with Earl H. Tilford Jr., Does Russian Democracy Have a Future,? Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1994
Stalin's Commissariat of Nationalities. 1917-24: The Sorcerer as Apprentice, Greenwood Publishing Co. Westport CT., 1994
Co-Author with LTC. William T. Johnsen, USA, and Stephen C. Pelletiere, Turkey's Strategic Position at the Crossroads of World Affairs, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1994
Co-Author with Lawrence E. Grinter, Karl P. Magyar, Lewis B. Ware, Bynum E. Weathers, Conflict, Culture & History: Regional Dimensions, Maxwell AFB, Al.: Air University Press, 1993
Co-Editor with Jacob Kipp, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth Ks., The Soviet Military and the Future. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992
Operational-Strategic Lessons of the Soviet War in Afghanistan,
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 1991
1986-89: Associate Professor of Soviet Studies Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL. Taught courses on low-intensity conflict, Soviet foreign policy in the Third World, Soviet politics
Dr. Stephen Blank Publications
Recent Major Articles and Studies
1)”Project 2008: Notes on the Russian Succession,” Strategic Insights, VI, NO. 5, August, 2007
2)“U.S. Interests in Central Asia and the Challenges to them,” Demokratizatsiya, XV, No. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 312-334
3)”The Agenda of Security in the Black Sea Zone, “Acque Et Terre, No. 2, 2007, pp. 12-18 (English), 101-107 (Italian)
4)”East Asia Meets Central Asia: The Global Energy Crisis as a Spur to Globalization and Regional Integration in Asia,” Korea and World Affairs, XXXI, NO. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 39-63
5)”The Limits of Allied Action,” Ilan Berman Ed., Taking on Tehran: Strategies for Confronting the Islamic Republic, Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007, pp. 49-62
6)”The Geostrategic Implications of the Indo-American Strategic Partnership,” India Review, VI, No. 1, January-March, 2007, pp. 1-24
7)U.S. Interests in Central Asia and the Challenges to Them, Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, March, 2007
8) “The Naval Dimension of the Great Game,” World Defence Systems, IX, No. 2, 2007, pp. 34-40
9)Rosoboroneksport: Arms Sales and the Structure of Russian Defense Industry, Carlisle Barracks, PA, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2007
10)”The End of the Six-Party Talks,?” Strategic Insights, January, 2007, www.nps.navy.mil
11)”Russia’s Project 2008: Reforming the Military and Preparing a Coup,” World Affairs, CLXIX, NO. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 65-79
12) ”The Larger Implications of Russian Policy in Moldova, Ukraine, and Belarus,” Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar and Tiago Marques., Eds., Global and Regional Security Challenges: A Baltic Outlook, Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2006, pp. 107-126
13)The NATO-Russian Partnership: A Marriage of Convenience or a Troubled Partnership,?, Carlisle Barracks, PA Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, November, 2006
14)”A New Russian Defense Doctrine,?” UNISCI Discussion Papers (Madrid), No. 12, October, 2006
15)“White Paper, China’s Military Power: Shadow Over Central Asia,” Lexington Institute, 2006
16)”India, China, and New Trends in South Asian Energy Security,” Marco Polo Magazine Acque et Terre, NO. 2, 2006, pp. 3-8 (English), 23-28 (Italian)
17)”Russie: Vers Une Nouvelle Doctrine de Defense,?” Defense et Securite Internationale, NO 16, 2006, pp. 46-51
18)”Russia and the Middle East; Policies and Contexts,” Conflict Studies Research Centre, Camberley, Surrey, June, 2006
19)”Kovykta: Russian Gas and Asian Markets,” Northeast Asia Energy Focus, Korea Energy Economics Institute, III, NO. 2, May, 2006, pp. 34-42
20)”Strategic Surprise: Central Asia in 2006,” China Eurasia Forum, IV, No. 2, May, 2006, pp. 109-130
21)”The Eurasian Energy Triangle: China, Russia , and the Central Asian States,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, XII, No. 2, Winter-Spring, 2006, pp. 53-67
22)”Outsourcing Korea,” Pacific Focus, XXXI, NO. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 7-57
23)”Proliferation, Asymmetric War, and the Contemporary Threat Environment,” James A. Russell, Ed., Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East,, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 11-29
24)“The 18th Brumaire of Vladimir Putin,” in Uri Ra’anan, Ed., Flawed Succession: Russia’s Power Transfer Crises, Foreword by Robert Conquest, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books for Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, pp. 133-170
25)“Potemkin’s Treadmill: Russian Military Modernization,” Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, Eds., Strategic Asia 2005-2006: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty, Seattle: National Bureau of Research, Asia, 2005, pp. 174-205
Dr. Stephen Blank
Forthcoming Articles and Studies
1. Can East Asia Dare to Tie its Energy Security to Russia and Kazakhstan?
2 “Russia in the Middle East: Policies and Contexts, “ Markus Kaim, Ed., Great Powers and Regional Orders. The United States and the Persian Gulf” Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
3. “India and the New Great Game in Central Asia,” Harsh V. Pant, Ed., Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World, London: Routledge, 2007
4. Iran’s Complex Security Relations in the Caspian Basin, Forthcoming from the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies
5. Turkmenistan and Central Asia After Niyazov, Forthcoming from, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College
Recent Presentations
1.”Arms Sales and Defense Economics Under Vladimir Putin,” Paper Presented to the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. November 17, 2006
2.”Russian Foreign Policy in Asia in 2006,” Paper Presented to the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. November 16, 2006
3.”U.S. Interests in Central Asia and the Challenges to Them,” Presented to the ECSAS and Universidad Complutense de Madrid Conference on Security Perceptions in Central Asia, Madrid , October 26, 2006
4.” Rosoboroneksport; Its Place in Russian Defense and Arms Sales Policy,” Presented to the Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. September 1, 2006
5. “The NATO-Russia Partnership: A Marriage of Convenience or a Troubled Partnership?” Paper Presented to the US Army War College-University of Washington Conference The U.S. and Russia: Regional Security Issues and Interests, Washington, D.C., April 24, 2006
6. “Russian Military Modernization Under Vladimir Putin,” Paper Presented to the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 23, 2006
7. “Russian Policy in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, presented to Franco-American Diplomats Conference on Russia, Paris, December 7-8, 2005”
8.“Russia’s Project 2008: Reforming the Military and Preparing a Coup”, Paper Presented to the Annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18, 2005
9.“Russian Foreign Policy in Asia in 2005, Paper Presented to the Annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18, 2005
10. “Unfreezing Eurasia’s Conflicts,” Paper Presented to the Conference “New Security Threats in Eurasia: Implications for the Euro-Atlantic Space,” Stockholm, May 19-20, 2005
Biography of Dr. Stephen Blank
STEPHEN BLANK is Professor of Russian National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Blank has beenProfessor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute since 1989. In 1998-2001 he was Douglas MacArthur Professor of Research at the War College.
He has published over 500 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 CIA, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the USA and abroad In Florence, Prague, and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the United States and abroad.
He has published or edited 15 books focusing on Russian foreign, energy, and military policies and on International Security in Eurasia. His most recent book is 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 Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2005.
Dr. Blank is also the author of a study of the Soviet Commissariat of Nationalities, The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin's Commissariat of Nationalities, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994 and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992.
Prior to this appointment Dr. Blank was Associate Professor for Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education of Air University at Maxwell AFB. He also held the position of 1980-86: Assistant Professor of Russian History, University of Texas, San Antonio, 1980-86, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian history,
University of California, Riverside, 1979-80.
Dr. Blank's M.A. and Ph.D. are in Russian History from the University of Chicago.