Mark N. Katz

Visiting Senior Fellow

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Recent Articles

“Assessing the Putin-Rouhani Summit.”  LobeLog, March 29, 2017

“Russian Policy toward Libya:The Egyptian Factor.”  Atlantic Council MENASource, March 22, 2017

“Targeting Iran’s Regime Will Strengthen, Not Break, the Moscow-Tehran Alliance,” LobeLog, February 16, 2017

“Putin Resists Pressure to Take Sides as U.S.-Iran Tensions Grow,” Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, February 9, 2017

“Russia Maneuvers between Opposing Forces in Yemen,” Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, January 25, 2017

“Russia’s Middle East Policy and the Trump Administration,” Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, January 13, 2017

“Can Putin and Trump Succeed at Improving Russian-American Relations?” LobeLog, December 31, 2016

“Assassination in Ankara: Broader Implications,” LobeLog, December 20,2016

“The Authoritarian Status Quo in the Middle East,” The Arab Weekly, December 11, 2016

"Russia and Lebanon: A Geopolitical Juggling Act," The American Interest, October 28, 2016

“Syria: Ceasefire Efforts Cease,”  LobeLog, October 4,2016

“Understanding Syria’s Many Conflicts,” e-International Relations, August 31, 2016

"What Hamadan Says about the Fragility of Russian-Iranian Ties," LobeLog, August 23, 2016

"Russian Bombers in Iran Are a Symbol, Not a Strategy," National Interest, August 21, 2016

"Russia's Regional Ties Grow at Saudi Expense," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, August 19, 2016

"Why Has Tehran Allowed Russian Bombers to Use an Iranian Base?" LobeLog, August 18, 2016

"The Iran Factor in the Russian-Turkish Rapprochement," The Arab Weekly, August 14, 2016

"Is Saudi Arabia Really Inviting Russia to Play a Bigger Role in the Middle East?" LobeLog, August 2, 2016

"The GCC View of Russia: Diminishing Expectations," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, July 28, 2016

"Russia and the Syrian Kurds: A Complex Interaction," The Arab Weekly, June 19, 2016 

"Putin's Foreign Policy and Russia's Long-Term Interests," Baltic Rim Economies Review (Pan-European Institute, Finland), May 2016

"Russia, Iran and Israel: A Troubled Triangle," E-International Relations, May 18, 2016

"The Russian Approach to Middle East Conflicts and the Arab World," IEMed. Mediterranean Yearbook 2016, European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2016.

"Putin-Netanyahu Summit Sends Multiple Messages," The Arab Weekly, April 24, 2016

"Interpreting Putin's Surprise Move in Syria," LobeLog, March 16, 2016

"Russian-Iranian Relations: Troubled Ties," LobeLog, March 14, 2016

“Russia’s Costly Success in Syria,” The Arab Weekly, March 11, 2016

“What History Suggests Will Be Russia’s Next Move in the Middle East,” History News Network, March 6,2016

"Russian Geopolitical Strategy in the Mediterranean," Afkar/Ideas, Winter 2015/2016

"Putin's Syrian Quagmire: Costs as Well as Benefits for the US," E-International Relations, December 2, 2015

“Just How Firm Is the Russian-Iranian Alliance?”  The Arab Weekly, November 27, 2015

"Russia and the West after Paris," LobeLog, November 23, 2015

"Russian Intervention in the Syrian Civil War," Russian Analytical Digest, No. 175, 16 November 2015

"Convergent Hopes, Divergent Realities: Russia and the Gulf in a Time of Troubles," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Policy Paper #7, November 6, 2015

"Assessing Putin's 'Fight Them There Not Here' Strategy," SyriaSource (Atlantic Council), September 28, 2015

"Who Is Putin Really Protecting Assad From?" LobeLog, September 24, 2015

"Russian Anxieties about the Iranian Nuclear Accord.” LobeLog, August 25, 2015

"Putin Ignoring China Threat," The Moscow Times, August 16, 2015

"America and Iran: Can the Nuclear Deal Lead to Rapprochement?" The National Interest Online, July 23, 2015

"Broader Geopolitical Implications of the Iranian Nuclear Accord," LobeLog, July 14, 2015

"Why Russia Shouldn't Fear NATO," The National Interest Online, July 2, 2015

“The Grand Dilemma: What Is the Most Dangerous Threat to America?” National Interest Online, June 24, 2015

"Inside the Confused Mind of Vladimir Putin" The Moscow Times, April 1, 2015

"ISIS and the Bolshevik Precedent," LobeLog, October 3, 2014

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)

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).