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
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – The Future of US-Lebanon Defense and Security Cooperation
Equality for Some: Challenges to Women’s Rights in Egypt
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – Addressing the Lebanese Social and Humanitarian Crises
The U.S. must ensure NATO’s door remains open to Georgia and Ukraine
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – The Final Countdown: How to Manage Lebanon’s Transformational Economic Crisis and Avert Total Collapse
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – The Future of the “French Initiative”: A Conversation with Ambassador Pierre Duquesne
Women and Iran’s Presidential Elections: What Role Will They Play?
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – Lebanon Amid Evolving Regional and International Dynamics
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – Breaking the Lebanese Political Logjam
Deal or No Deal: US-Iran Talks and Implications for the Middle East
MEI Lebanon Policy Conference – The Future of US Policy Toward Lebanon