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
Moving to a post-Khamenei era: The role of the Assembly of Experts
MEI Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Rabdan Academy
Monday Briefing: The US response to Sunday’s attack on American forces: Reactive or strategic?
Panel Conversation: Bahraini Artists Across Borders
What does Israel want to see come out of US mediation efforts on Israel-Lebanon?
Partisan press: The dominance of party-backed media in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
America Is Planning to Withdraw From Syria—and Create a Disaster
Monday Briefing: Growing dissension in Israel as Netanyahu hopes to keep the war going
The ideological underpinnings of the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks
What it means when nine nations bomb in the Middle East in two weeks
Managing US Relations with Pakistan in Uncertain Times: Obstacles and Opportunities