Mark Galeotti Expert in Russian politics and security
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Prague, Czechia
Prague
Mark Galeotti, MA PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Affairs Prague, Principal Director of the Mayak Intelligence consultancy, and a world-recognised expert on Russian politics and security affairs, transnational crime, unconventional warfare and intelligence.
He read history at Robinson College, Cambridge University and then took his doctorate in politics at the London School of Economics, after a brief time working in the City of London. From 1991-2008, he was based at Keele University in the UK, where he became Head of History and founder and Director of the Organised Russian & Eurasian Crime Research Unit.
He was seconded in an advisory role to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1996-97, where his remit covered post-Soviet organised crime, the security and intelligence services and Russian foreign and security policy.
From 2008 to 2016, he was Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, and also chair of its Center for Global Affairs, before moving to Prague.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers—Newark, USA, Charles University (Prague) and MGIMO (Moscow), an invited fellow of Oxford University’s Extra-Legal Governance Institute in 2007, and a Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations since 2016.
He has published widely, with 15 authored and edited books to his name and numerous articles in the academic, professional and popular press, including a monthly column on post-Soviet affairs in Jane’s Intelligence Review 1991-2006. He is the Founding Editor of the journal Global Crime and was the European Editor of Low-Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement until 2005, as well as being an Editorial Consultant to Jane’s Intelligence Review. He writes the regular 'Stolypin' column on Russian politics, security and economics for Business New Europe.
He also has widespread consultancy experience, with clients ranging from governments and law-enforcement agencies (including NATO, the FBI and Interpol) through to commercial clients. He has given evidence before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and briefed officials from numerous British and foreign government departments.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Do the Western Balkans face a coming Russian storm?
Apr 04, 2018The confluence of a rising series of pressures in the Balkans, as well as the attention of Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev – who has taken on the region as a special responsibility – suggests 2018 will see the launch of a renewed Russian campaign in the Balkans.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Britain Has No Clue Why It’s Punishing Russia
Mar 27, 2018Before you sanction Putin, it would help to know what you're after.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Putin Finally Went Too Far
Mar 27, 2018The unified international response to the Skripal poisoning shows that the West will only suffer so much provocation.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Russia pursues 'dark power' in the Skripal case
Mar 15, 2018The nerve agent attack on British soil is a classical who-dunnit from a Cold War spy novel. More interesting than the murky details is the context. According to security expert Mark Galeotti, currently in Moscow, it is part and parcel of Russia's policy of 'dark power'.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Will Mueller’s investigation tangle Putin’s ‘adhocrats’?
Feb 22, 2018Who are the people that cater on the Kremlin, in this very specific clientelistic Russian way? Who is 'Putin's cook' Prigozhin who is on top of the indictment of Robert Mueller? Cooking, catering, mercenaries, Syrian oil: all these 'adhocrats' come in handy for the authorities, says security expert Mark Galeotti. But they can be a nuisance. Maybe their time is over.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Robert Mueller Is Treating Russia Like a Gang, and It's Working
Feb 20, 2018This is like an anti-mafia RICO case—except applied to a whole country.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Cyber Hysteria
Jan 10, 2018Governments and media credit Russia with fearsome hacking capabilities―which happens to suit Moscow very well. The West should take concrete counter-measures.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Is Chechnya's Kadyrov really 'dreaming' of quitting?
Nov 28, 2017Chechen President Ramazan Kadyrov talks about standing down to assert his indispensability.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
How Putin could yet save Britain from Brexit
Nov 02, 2017
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
Donbas war will be won by force of example, not arms
Oct 30, 2007Those who argue that reform must take second place to military victory are in effect cheerleading for the kleptocrats.
Mark Galeotti
Expert in Russian politics and security
The Kremlin's puzzle: how to frame Putin's re-election?
Oct 30, 2007Rusland voert de druk op online berichtendienst Telegram op. De FSB stelt dat Telegram toegang moet geven tot zijn gebruikersgegevens op straffe van verbod. Ook andere sociale media, zoals Facebook, worden bedreigd met maatregelen, schrijft internet-onderzoeker Mariëlle Wijermans.
