Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti is Academic Chair of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and Clinical Full Professor of Global Affairs.^[1][2] 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,^[3] 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.

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 (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.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.scps.nyu.edu/about-scps/newsroom/experts/mark-galeotti.html
2. ^ http://nyuglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/cga-faculty/cga-faculty-professor-mark-galeotti/
3. ^ http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/hi/staff/m_galeotti.htm
4. ^ http://themoscownews.com/siloviks_scoundrels/

External links

• Official page
• Blog: In Moscow's Shadows

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