Mark N. Katz

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, transnational revolutionary
movements, and other subjects.

He earned 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).

He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1982), Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign
Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1986), Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Center
for Strategic and International Studies, 1989), Revolutions and
Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin's Press, 1997), and Reflections on
Revolutions (St. Martin's Press, 1999). He is also the editor of The
USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World (Wilson
Center/Cambridge University Press, 1990), Soviet-American Conflict
Resolution in the Third World (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1991),
and Revolution: International Dimensions (CQ Press, 2001).

Katz is also a contributor to the Open Society Institute’s Eurasianet, and to Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH).