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
Special Briefing: The legacy, lessons, and future course of Iraq 20 years since the U.S. invasion
In Disorder, They Thrive: How Rural Distress Fuels Militancy and Banditry in the Central Sahel
A message to the donors convening in Brussels to aid Syria’s earthquake recovery
Economic Diversification, Energy Transition, and the Labor Market in Iraq and the Gulf
Iraq’s new geopolitics and the importance of regional engagement: A view from Brussels
Surge in West Bank violence further undercuts Abbas’s precarious leadership
An Arab Science Spring: Science, technology, and innovation in the Middle East
The challenge of defending NATO’s Black Sea borderland: The view from Bucharest
We can’t tackle climate change in the Middle East without ESG investing
Dispatches from Tokyo: Abe’s legacy, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific, tech decoupling, and more
Monday Briefing: Four factors to watch to assess the Saudi-Iranian diplomatic opening
The Libyan Banking Sector: A Microcosm of Global Enduring Disorder
Bafel in Baghdad: Finding the contours of the PUK’s strategy in federal Iraq