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Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University,
September 1998--;
Associate Professor, September 1992-August 1998;
Assistant Professor, September 1988-August 1992.
Education:
Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
February 1982.
M.A., International Relations, Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies, May 1978.
B.A., International Relations, University of California at
Riverside, June 1976.
Fellowships and Grants:
Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant, January 2008.
Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center 21st Century COE
Program Foreign Visitors Fellowship, June-July 2007.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grants, Summer 1997,
Summer 2001, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, and Summer
2006.
GMU Faculty Study Leaves (sabbaticals), Spring 1998 and Fall
2004.
National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend, Summer 1995.
United States Institute of Peace Grant, September 1994-May
1995.
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.
Books:
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).
Articles and Chapters (last ten years):
"Will There Be Any More Democratic Revolutions?" Nonviolent
Social Change (The Bulletin of the Manchester College Peace
Studies Institute), 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.
“Russia and Qatar,” Middle East Review of International Affairs,
December 2007.
“Russian Foreign Policy: Assertive, but Alone,” The World
Today, November 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).
“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.
“Putin, Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis,” Middle
East Policy, Winter 2006.
“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.
“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).
“Iran and America: Is Rapprochement Finally Possible?”
Middle East Policy, Winter 2005.
“Transnational Revolutionary Ideologies,” Society,
September/October 2005.
“Exploiting Rivalries for Prestige and Profit: An Assessment of
Putin’s Foreign Policy Approach,” Problems of Post-
Communism, May/June 2005.
“Less Than Great Expectations: The Pakistani-Russian
Rapprochement,” Current History, March 2005.
“Putin’s Pro-Israel Policy,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 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.
“Post-Iraq and Beyond: What Can We Expect from Trilateral
US/EU/Russian Cooperation in the Greater Middle East
Region,” EastWest Institute, March 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.
“Assessing Saudi Susceptibility to Revolution,” in Joseph A.
Kechichian, ed., Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States (Palgrave,
2001).
“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.
“Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East,” in
Manochehr Dorraj, ed., Middle East at the Crossroads
(University Press of America, 1999).
“The United States and Iran: Ready for Rapprochement?”
SAIS Review, Summer-Fall 1998.
