Jeffrey Mankoff — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Distinguished Fellow at National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies
Author of "Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics" (2011)
Author of "Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security" (2022)
Served as a fellow and senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2011-2020
Served as an adviser on U.S.-Russia relations at the U.S. Department of State
Taught courses on international security, Russia, and Central Asia at Columbia, George Washington, Georgetown, and Yale Universities
Life member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Biography

Jeffrey Mankoff is a Distinguished Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies. He is a scholar, administrator, and foreign policy analyst with a focus on politics and international security in the former Soviet Union/Eurasia. His expertise includes great power politics, US foreign policy, US-Russian relations, energy security, strategic planning, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and ethnic conflict.