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
Perpetual Identities: Interview with Katya Traboulsi
Seized Russian-printed dinars highlight an opportunity to reform Libya’s civil war economy
Transnational Shi’ism in Southern China and the Party-state’s “Hawza” Diplomacy
Washington Should Back, Not Punish, the Lebanese Military
Women and women’s rights are central to Lebanon’s protest movement
Iraq: Protests and violence continue amid a deepening political crisis
Lebanon’s third week of protests: Government delay, economic risk, and an ill-advised US policy decision
Syria: The most important issues are not yet on the table in Geneva
40 years on from the moment that forever changed US-Iranian relations
Testimony: The Human Toll of Turkey’s Policy at Home and Abroad