Mark Galeotti
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Mark Galeotti is Academic Chair of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University
and Clinical Full Professor of Global Affairs. He is an expert and prolific author on transnational crime
and Russian security affairs.
Previously, he was head of the history department at Keele University
, visiting professor of public security at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Newark
(2005-6) and senior research fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(1996–97). Born in the UK, he was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston-upon-Thames and Robinson College, Cambridge University, where he read history, and then the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his doctorate in the Government department, under Dominic Lieven
, on the impact of the Afghan war on the USSR.
Between 1991 and 2006, he wrote a monthly column on Russian and post-Soviet security issues for Jane's Intelligence Review
(formerly Jane’s Soviet Intelligence Review). He continues to write for various Jane's publications, as well as Oxford Analytica
, for which he covers Russian security, transnational crime and terrorism issues. In july 2011, he started writing a regular column, Siloviks & Scoundrels, for the Russian newspaper The Moscow News.
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
and Clinical Full Professor of Global Affairs. He is an expert and prolific author on transnational crime
Transnational crime
Transnational crimes are crimes that have actual or potential effect across national borders and crimes which are intra-State but which offend fundamental values of the international community...
and Russian security affairs.
Previously, he was head of the history department at Keele University
Keele University
Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...
, visiting professor of public security at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Newark
Rutgers-Newark
Rutgers University in Newark is one of three campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of American Universities...
(2005-6) and senior research fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, commonly called the Foreign Office or the FCO is a British government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom overseas, created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office.The head of the FCO is the...
(1996–97). Born in the UK, he was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston-upon-Thames and Robinson College, Cambridge University, where he read history, and then the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his doctorate in the Government department, under Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of Trinity College, Cambridge...
, on the impact of the Afghan war on the USSR.
Key Publications
His main works include:- The Politics of Security in Modern Russia [edited] (London: Ashgate, 2010)
- Organized Crime in History [edited] (London: Routledge, 2009)
- Global Crime Today: the changing face of organised crime [edited] (London: Routledge, 2005)
- Criminal Russia: a sourcebook and coursebook on 150 years of crime, corruption & policing (Keele, ORECRU, revised 4th edition, 2003)
- Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime [edited] (London, Ashgate, 2002)
- Putin's Russia [edited] (London, Jane's, 2002), co-edited with Ian Synge
- Gorbachev and his Revolution (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997). Elements of this book were republished within People Who Made History: Mikhail Gorbachev, edited by Tom Head (New York, Gale: 2003)
- Jane’s Sentinel: Russia (Coulsdon, Jane’s, 1997)
- Unstable Russia: a regional commercial risk assessment (Coulsdon, Jane’s, 1996)
- The Age of Anxiety. Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (Harlow, Longman Higher Academic, 1995). Translated into Czech as Cas Uzkosti (Prague, Orbis, 1998)
- Afghanistan: the Soviet Union's last war (London, Frank Cass, 1995, new edition released in paperback 2001).
- The Kremlin’s Agenda (Coulsdon, Jane’s Information Group, 1995)
Between 1991 and 2006, he wrote a monthly column on Russian and post-Soviet security issues for Jane's Intelligence Review
Jane's Intelligence Review
Jane's Intelligence Review is a monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group . Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation....
(formerly Jane’s Soviet Intelligence Review). He continues to write for various Jane's publications, as well as Oxford Analytica
Oxford Analytica
Oxford Analytica is an international consulting firm providing strategic analysis of world events. It was founded in 1975 by David Young, an American employee of the National Security Council during the Nixon administration and one of the four in the Watergate scandal.Clients of Oxford Analytica...
, for which he covers Russian security, transnational crime and terrorism issues. In july 2011, he started writing a regular column, Siloviks & Scoundrels, for the Russian newspaper The Moscow News.