Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University. He writes on Russian foreign policy, the international relations of the Middle East, and transnational revolutionary movements.

He received a B.A. in international relations from the University of California at Riverside in 1976, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1982.

Before starting to teach at George Mason University in 1988, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution (1980-81), held a temporary appointment as a Soviet affairs analyst at the U.S. Department of State (1982), was a Rockefeller Foundation international relations fellow (1982-84), and was both a Kennan Institute research scholar (1985) and research associate (1985-87). He has also received a U.S. Institute of Peace fellowship (1989-90) and grant (1994-95), and several Earhart Foundation fellowship research grants. He was a visiting scholar at the Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center (June-July 2007), and at the Kennan Institute (January 2008).

His books include The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (1982), Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (1986), Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (1997), and Reflections on Revolutions (1999). He has contributed articles to the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Current History, Demokratizatsiya, Los Angeles Times, Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, Middle East Quarterly, Middle East Review of International Affairs, Moscow Times, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Problems of Post-Communism, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications.

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