MARK N. KATZ
Department of Public and International Affairs
George Mason University
MSN 3F4
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA
+1.703. 993.1420
mkatz@gmu.edu
www.marknkatz.com
Employment
Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University, September 1998--;
Associate Professor, September 1992-August 1998;
Assistant Professor, September 1988-August 1992.
Research Associate, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, September 1985-May 1987.
Soviet Affairs Analyst, U.S. Department of State, Office of Soviet and East European
Research, January-August 1982 (temporary appointment).
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1982.
M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies, May 1978.
B.A. in International Relations, University of California at Riverside, June 1976.
Fellowships and Grants
GMU Faculty Study Leaves (sabbaticals), Spring 1998, Fall 2004, and Fall 2010.
Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant, January 2008.
Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center 21st Century Center of Excellence Program
Foreign Visitors Fellowship, June-July 2007.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants, Summer 1997, Summer 2001, Summer 2004,
Summer 2005, and Summer 2006.
National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend, Summer 1995.
United States Institute of Peace Grant, September 1994-May 1995.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, September 1993-May 1994.
GMU International Institute Summer Research Grants, 1991, 1992, and 1993.
United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship, June 1989-May 1990.
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Research Scholarship, February-August
1985.
Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellowship, September 1982-November 1984.
Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, September 1980-August 1981.
Earhart Foundation H. B. Earhart Fellowships, Summer 1980, and Fall 1981.
Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship, September 1979-May 1980.
Other
Visiting Senior Fellow, Middle East Policy Council, September 2010-January 2011.
Visiting Scholar, Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Applied Political Sciences, Moscow,
March 2010.
Research Scholar, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, May 2001.
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College Asian Studies Program, June-August 1995.
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Department of Government and Russian Area
Studies Program, January 1986-December 1987.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies, March-August 1985.
Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service, January-May 1985.
Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, September 1982November 1984.
Books
Leaving Without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2012).
Editor, Revolution: International Dimensions (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001).
Reflections on Revolutions (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 1999).
Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, 1997).
Editor, Soviet-American Conflict Resolution in the Third World (U.S. Institute of Peace Press,
1991).
Editor, The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World (Cambridge University
Press/Wilson Center, 1990).
Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Praeger/Center for Strategic and International
Studies, 1989).
Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1986).
The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press/Croom Helm,
1982—reissued by Routledge, 2011).
Articles
“Russia and Iran,” Middle East Policy, Fall 2012
“What Would a Democratic Russian Foreign Policy Look Like?” New Zealand International
Review, March/April 2012
“Russia and the Arab Spring,” Russian Analytical Digest, July 6, 2011.
“Russia’s Policy toward the Middle East,” Russian Analytical Digest, September 28, 2010.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era,” Middle East Policy, Summer 2010.
“Russia’s Greater Middle East Policy,” Institut français des relations internationals (IFRI),
Russie.Nei.Visions, no. 49, April 2010.
“Obama’s Approach to Russia and Iran,” Middle East Strategy at Harvard, Middle East Papers
No. 8, December 14, 2009.
“Russian-Iranian Relations: Functional Dysfunction,” Mideast Monitor, July-August 2009.
“Saudi-Russian Relations since the Abdullah-Putin Summit,” Middle East Policy, Spring 2009.
“Implications of the Georgian Crisis for Israel, Iran, and the West,” Middle East Review of
International Affairs, December 2008.
“The Russian-Libyan Rapprochement: What Has Moscow Gained?” Middle East Policy, Fall
2008.
“Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Moscow’s Lonely Road from Bishkek to
Dushanbe,” Asian Perspective, September 2008.
“Will There Be Any More Democratic Revolutions?” Nonviolent Social Change, May 2008.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad Era,” Middle East Journal, Spring 2008.
“Comparing Putin’s and Brezhnev’s Policies toward the Middle East,” Society, March-April
2008.
“The Emerging Saudi-Russian Partnership,” Mideast Monitor, January-March 2008.
“Russia and Algeria: Partners or Competitors?” Middle East Policy, Winter 2007.
“Russian Foreign Policy: Assertive, but Alone,” The World Today, November 2007.
“Will There Be Revolution in Central Asia?” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, June
2007.
“Non-Democratic Revolutions and Attempts at State Breakup: Is There a Connection?” World
Affairs, Winter 2007.
“The Putin-Chavez Partnership,” Problems of Post-Communism, July-August 2006.
“Revolutionary Change in Central Asia,” World Affairs, Spring 2006.
“Putin’s Foreign Policy toward Syria,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, March 2006.
“Primakov Redux? Putin’s Pursuit of ‘Multipolarism’ in Asia,” Demokratizatsiya, Winter 2006.
“Iran and America: Is Rapprochement Finally Possible?” Middle East Policy, Winter 2005.
“Transnational Revolutionary Ideologies,” Society, September/October 2005.
“Less Than Great Expectations: The Pakistani-Russian Rapprochement,” Current History,
March 2005.
“Putin’s Pro-Israel Policy,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2005.
“Exploiting Rivalries for Prestige and Profit: An Assessment of Putin’s Foreign Policy
Approach,” Problems of Post-Communism, May-June 2005.
“Assessing the Political Stability of Oman,” Middle East Review of International Affairs,
September 2004.
“Saudi-Russian Relations Since 9/11,” Problems of Post-Communism, March-April 2004.
“Democratic Revolutions: Why Some Succeed, Why Others Fail,” World Affairs, Winter 2004.
“Losing Balance: Russian Foreign Policy toward Iraq and Iran,” Current History, October 2003.
“Playing the Angles: Russian Diplomacy Before and During the War in Iraq,” Middle East
Policy, Fall 2003.
“What Do We Do If the Saudi Monarchy Falls?” Comparative Strategy, January-March 2003.
“Breaking the Yemen-Al Qaeda Connection,” Current History, January 2003.
“Osama bin Laden as Transnational Revolutionary Leader,” Current History, February 2002.
“Russian-Iranian Relations in the Putin Era,” Demokratizatsiya, Winter 2002.
“Revolution: Refining Its Defining” (with J. Milton Yinger), International Journal of Group
Tensions, Winter 2001.
“Saudi-Russian Relations in the Putin Era,” The Middle East Journal, Autumn 2001.
“Unfaithful Allies,” Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, Summer 2001.
“The United States and Iran: Ready for Rapprochement?” SAIS Review, Summer-Fall 1998.
“The Embourgeoisement of Revolutionary Regimes: Reflections on Abdallah Laroui,” Studies
in Conflict and Terrorism, July-September 1998.
“Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet
Review, 1996 [1998].
“Election Day in Aden,” Middle East Policy, September 1997.
“Central Asian Stability: Under Threat?” SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 1997.
“Africa's Borders: European Borders, Contested Rule,” Current History, April 1995.
“Nationalism and the Legacy of Empire,” Current History, October 1994.
“The Legacy of Empire in International Relations,” Comparative Strategy, October-December
1993.
“Yemeni Unity and Saudi Security,” Middle East Policy, 1992.
“Superpower Conflict Resolution: Lessons for the Future,” The Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1991.
“Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy toward Regional Conflicts,” The
Washington Quarterly, Winter 1991.
“Why Does the Cold War Continue in the Third World?” Journal of Peace Research, November
1990.
“Can the Superpowers Plot Peace?” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1990.
“The Decline of Soviet Power: Implications for International Relations,” Survival, JanuaryFebruary 1990.
“Evolving Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Strategy,” The Washington Quarterly, Summer 1989.
“Soviet Policy in the Middle East,” Current History, February 1988.
“Soviet Military Policy toward the Third World,” The Washington Quarterly, Fall 1986.
“Civil Conflict in South Yemen,” Middle East Review, Fall 1986.
“The Soviet Union and the Third World,” Current History, October 1986.
“The Anti-Soviet Insurgencies: Growing Trend or Passing Phase?” Orbis, Summer 1986.
“Soviet Policy in the Gulf States,” Current History, January 1985.
“Sanaa and the Soviets,” Problems of Communism, January-February 1984.
“The Soviet-Cuban Connection,” International Security, Summer 1983.
“On the Significance of V.M. Kulish,” Studies in Soviet Thought, April 1983.
“The Origins of the Vietnam War,” The Review of Politics, April 1980.
Chapters
“Pakistan and the ‘War on Terror,’” in Rachel E. Utley, ed., 9/11—Ten Years After:
Perspectives and Problems (Ashgate, 2012).
“Iran and Russia: Wary Cooperation,” in Michel Makinsky, ed., L’Iran et les grands acteurs
régionaux et globaux (L’Harmattan, 2012).
“Iran and Russia,” in Robin Wright, ed., The Iran Primer (Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of
Peace/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010).
“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization—A View from the U.S.,” in Akihiro Iwashita, ed.,
Toward a New Dialogue on Eurasia: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Its
Partners (Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, 2007).
“Russia’s Security Challenges,” in Akihiro Iwashita, ed., Eager Eyes Fixed on Eurasia, vol. 1:
Russia and Its Neighbors in Crisis (Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, 2007).
“Prospective Impacts of Russia and Iran,” in Richard M. Auty and Indra de Soysa, eds., Energy,
Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Lessons Not Learned
(Routledge, 2006).
“Assessing Saudi Susceptibility to Revolution,” in Joseph A. Kechichian, ed., Iran, Iraq, and the
Arab Gulf States (Palgrave, 2001).
“Collapsed Empires,” in Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson, eds., Managing Global
Chaos (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1996).
“Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution,” in I. William Zartman and Victor A. Kremenyuk, eds.,
Cooperative Security: Reducing Third World Wars (Syracuse University Press, 1995).
“Emerging Patterns in the International Relations of Central Asia,” in Adeed Dawisha and Karen
Dawisha, eds., The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia
(M. E. Sharpe, 1995).
“External Powers and the Yemeni Civil War,” in Jamal S. al-Suwaidi, ed., The Yemeni War of
1994: Causes and Consequences (Saqi Books/The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies
and Research, 1995).
“America's Post-Cold War Military Policy in the Third World,” in Mohiaddin Mesbahi, ed.,
Russia and the Third World in the Post-Soviet Era (University Press of Florida, 1994).
“Analyzing the Changing Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Former USSR,” in Andrew A.
Michta and Ilya Prizel, eds., Postcommunist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform (St.
Martin's Press, 1992).
“Soviet Military Policies in the Third World,” (with Robert S. Litwak) in Bruce Parrott, ed., The
Dynamics of Soviet Defense Policy (Wilson Center Press, 1990).
“Moscow and the Gulf War,” in Christopher C. Joyner, ed., The Persian Gulf War: Lessons for
Strategy, Law, and Diplomacy (Greenwood Press, 1990).
“Soviet Interests in the Gulf,” in M.E. Ahrari, ed., The Gulf and International Security
(Macmillan, 1989).
“The Evolution of the Brezhnev Doctrine under Gorbachev,” in Kurt M. Campbell and S. Neil
MacFarlane, eds., Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (Routledge, 1989).
“Gorbachev's African Policy,” in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., Africa in the 1990s and Beyond
(Reference Publications, 1988).
September 2012