Mark N. Katz

Professor of Government and Politics

Schar School of Policy and Government

George Mason University

Recent Articles

“The Role of Deflection in Putin’s Diplomacy toward the U.S.,” Kennan Cable No. 71, Kennan Institute/Wilson Center, September 2021

“Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Make America Jealous with its Budding Russia Ties,” Atlantic Council, August 27, 2021

"After the Fall of Kabul, Will There Be More Islamist Revolutions?" The Hill, August 17, 2021

"The Collapse of Afghanistan Could Mean Trouble for America's Enemies," The National Interest, August 14, 2021

"Great Power Clashes Will Reshape America," The National Interest, August 7, 2021

"Will Russian Forces Really Leave Libya?" Atlantic Council, July 22, 2021

"How Would Brezhnev Have Assessed Putin's Foreign Policy?" The National Interest, June 28, 2021

"Who Benefits — Buyer or Seller — from Gas Pipelines and Dependency Relationships?" The Hill, June 16, 2021

"What U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Talks Reveal About the Iran Nuclear Deal," The National Interest, June 11, 2021

"Russia's Competing Policy Interests in Syria and the Middle East," Russia Matters (Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs), May 25, 2021

"Russia Secretly Feared the Iran Nuclear Deal. Here's Why," Atlantic Council, April 28, 2021

"Russian Policy toward Syria: The Perils of Success," The Hill, April 23, 2021

"Taliban Rule in Afghanistan Is Worse for Its Neighbors than America," The National Interest, April 22, 2021

“Russia Is Friendly with the Houthis in Yemen. But It’s Complicated,” Atlantic Council, April 9, 2021

"Putin’s Mediterranean Gambit: Endgame Unclear," Atlantic Council, March 31, 2021

“Russia’s Growing Ties with Gulf Arabs,” Responsible Statecraft, March 26, 2021

"Russian-American Relations: From Trump to Biden," NIPP Information Series, November 23, 2020

"Adjusting to Change: American Foreign Policy in a Complex World" blog, since October 2020

"The 2020 Saudi-Russian Oil Price War," Public Jurist, August 2020

"Why Is Moscow Paying the Taliban to Kill Americans?" Responsible Statecraft, June 30, 2020

“Putin and the ‘Real Lessons’ of World War II,” Atlantic Council New Atlanticist blog, June 23, 2020

"Moscow Is Not Buying Pompeo's Iran Snapback Sanctions Logic," Atlantic Council, June 9, 2020

“What’s the Meaning of Moscow’s Murky Moves in Libya?” Responsible Statecraft, May 30, 2020

Has Moscow Really Turned against Assad?” Atlantic Council, May 12,2020

“Is Putin Really Not Worried about a Rising China?” Responsible Statecraft, May 6, 2020

“What the World Will Look Like in Trump’s Second Term, Responsible Statecraft, April 17, 2020

"Putin’s Courtship of Both Assad and Erdogan Is Spinning Out of Control in Syria," Responsible Statecraft, March 2, 2020

"How Long Can Russia and Turkey Cooperate amid a Myriad of Conflictual Hazards?" Responsible Statecraft, February 17, 2020

"Whatever His Title, He Plans to Remain in Charge: Is It a Solo 'Tandemocracy' Now?" Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, February 6, 2020

"Putin May Turn Against Trump in 2020," Responsible Statecraft, January 9, 2020

"Russia Reacts to the Killing of Soleimani," Atlantic Council, January 4, 2020

Books

Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).

Revolution: International Dimensions,(CQ Press, 2001).

Reflections on Revolutions, (Palgrave, 1999).

Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves, (Palgrave, 1997)

Soviet-American Conflict Resolution in the Third World. (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1991).

The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World, (Wilson Center/Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World, (CSIS/Praeger, 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--reissued by Routledge, 2011).