Mark N Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 699044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark N Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark N |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1948-3180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine
Complex Equation: Relations between Russia and the Middle East (review article)
Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History , edited by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 408 pages. $110 cloth. and Russian Strategy in the Middle East and North Africa , by Derek Averre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 288 pages. £85 cloth, e-book
The Great War, the Little String, and the Transformation of Modern Violin Playing
For centuries, gut strings, especially the highest and thinnest string, E, plagued violinists. They broke frequently, went out of tune easily, and whistled unpredictably. Starting in the 1870s, an alternative offered a solution—the steel E string. But steel strings were variously condemned as “an abomination,” “dangerous,” and “evil,” and most violinists continued to use gut. Then a remarkable change occurred. Within a mere three years—1918 to 19…
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East
Incessant Interest: Tsarist, Soviet and Putinist Mideast Strategies
External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
Hip hop and diplomacy are unlikely partners. And yet, since 2001 the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists to perform and teach around the world. The government has good reason to be interested in hip hop: it is known and loved across the globe, readily acknowledged as a product of American culture. Moreover, hip hop has long been a means of fostering community through creative collaboration—what hip hop artists call building—an…
War in Syria: Russian Press Coverage, 2015–2017
Russia’s Middle East Policy: From Lenin to Putin
The Soviet‐Israeli War 1967–1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian‐Israeli Conflict
The Gulf and the Great Powers: Evolving Dynamics
The Isis Threat to U.S. National Security: Policy Choices
I want to briefly go through my assessment of where we are in the fight against the Islamic State, how we got here, where we're going, and the lessons we should take from our experience thus far.Until last year, I was deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combatting terrorism, where I worked on these issues on a daily basis and saw the evolution of our policies and our approach towards the Islamic State throughout that …
Russia and the New World Disorder
Bobo Lo’s new book provides both a fine-grained analysis of the Russian approach to foreign policy under Vladimir Putin and an incisive critique of it. Lo describes in detail Putin’s dual image of America and the West as being expansionist and a threat to Russia on the one hand and as being in decline, in need of cooperation from Russia, and containable as a result of Putin’s ability to act more quickly and effectively than them. One of the most …
Preserving Heritage, Fostering Change
This article explores how two groups of American popular musicians have engaged with sound reproduction technologies—country artists and radio in the 1920s–40s and hip-hop DJs and video since 2000—to create an unintended but lasting cultural heritage for their musical traditions. Neither the radio broadcasts made by country artists nor the amateur videos of DJs were intended to be permanent. We argue that the practitioners of these traditions hav…
What Does It Mean to Study Popular Music?: A Musicologist's Perspective: What Does It Mean to Study Popular Music?
The International Relations of the Arab Spring
Symposium: U.S. Commitments to the Gulf Arab States: Are They Adequate
Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice Edited by Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian, and Elena Boschi
Reviewed by: Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice Edited by Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian, and Elena Boschi Mark Katz (bio) Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice. Edited by Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian, and Elena Boschi. Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xviii+210. $99.95. Ubiquitous music does not belong to any one genre or style; rather, it is…
Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration (Sophy Smith)
Is Assad's Syria a “Win” for Moscow
The Kremlin's support of Bashar al-Assad's regime appears to be working for now, but protecting unpopular autocrats hardly seems a sustainable long-term strategy
Russia and the Conflict in Syria: Four Myths
C risis in S yria: W hat A re the U.S. O ptions
R ussia and I ran
R ussian ‐I ranian R elations in the O bama E ra
S audi ‐R ussian R elations since the A bdullah ‐P utin S ummit
Russia and the New World Disorder
Bobo Lo’s new book provides both a fine-grained analysis of the Russian approach to foreign policy under Vladimir Putin and an incisive critique of it. Lo describes in detail Putin’s dual image of America and the West as being expansionist and a threat to Russia on the one hand and as being in decline, in need of cooperation from Russia, and containable as a result of Putin’s ability to act more quickly and effectively than them. One of the most …
The Soviet-Cuban Connection
In late April 1982, a news story circulated that then Secretary of State Alexander Haig had privately described Cuban President Fidel Castro as anguishing over an unspecified U.S. offer that could lead to both a rupture in Cuban-Soviet relations and an improvement in Cuban-American ones. 1 If indeed Castro should at some point decide to break away from the U.S.S.R. as China, Yugoslavia, and Albania did before, Soviet foreign policy would suffer a…
Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
Hip hop and diplomacy are unlikely partners. And yet, since 2001 the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists to perform and teach around the world. The government has good reason to be interested in hip hop: it is known and loved across the globe, readily acknowledged as a product of American culture. Moreover, hip hop has long been a means of fostering community through creative collaboration—what hip hop artists call building—an…
R ussia and A lgeria: P artners or C ompetitors
The Putin-Chavez Partnership
Oil wealth makes Venezuela more attractive than Cuba as a Latin American partner for Russia
Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal
R ussia and I ran
Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy Toward Regional Conflicts
(1991). Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy Toward Regional Conflicts. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 169-179
The International Relations of the Arab Spring
R ussian ‐I ranian R elations in the O bama E ra
Will there be revolution in Central Asia
Will revolution, either of the democratic or the Islamic fundamentalist variety, spread throughout Central Asia? Such a question cannot be answered definitively. I will address this question by examining what is going on in Central Asia in light of different theories of revolution, including the ones focusing on relative deprivation, regime type, state breakdown, external factors, democratic revolution theory, and the role of the military. This s…
Exploiting Rivalries for Prestige and Profit: An Assessment of Putin's Foreign Policy Approach
The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World
External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad Era
Russia and Iran share a common hostility toward the United States. There have, however, been important differences between Moscow and Tehran - especially over issues. Relations seemed to improve, though, with Vladimir Putin's October 2007 visit to Tehran and Russia's shipment to Iran of the enriched uranium needed to start up the Bushehr power plant. Important differences, however, remain between the two countries that serve to limit the extent t…
The embourgeoisement of revolutionary regimes: Reflections on Abdallah Laroui
This article analyzes the evoution of revolutionary regimes. In it, I argue that the theory of revolution advanced by the Moroccan scholar Abdallah Laroui in the 1960s and 1970s is especially useful for understanding this evolution. Unlike classic Marxism, and the many “Marxian” interpretations of revolution drawing inspiration from it, Laroui's theory of revolution provides an explanation of how the embrace of capitalism and the West by revoluti…
Preserving Heritage, Fostering Change
This article explores how two groups of American popular musicians have engaged with sound reproduction technologies—country artists and radio in the 1920s–40s and hip-hop DJs and video since 2000—to create an unintended but lasting cultural heritage for their musical traditions. Neither the radio broadcasts made by country artists nor the amateur videos of DJs were intended to be permanent. We argue that the practitioners of these traditions hav…
Symposium: U.S. Commitments to the Gulf Arab States: Are They Adequate
Russia and the Conflict in Syria: Four Myths
Putin, Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
I ran and A merica: I s R approchement F inally P ossible
Playing the Angles: Russian Diplomacy Before and During the War in Iraq
Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East
Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, there has been significant change in Moscow's Middle East policy. During much of the Cold War, Moscow sought to project Soviet influence throughout even the far off Arab region of the Middle East. In the post-Cold War era, though, Russian foreign policy has focused on that part of the Middle East closest to the former USSR-the Northern Tier. This article will examine the major aspects of post-Cold War Russia…
Nationalism and the Legacy of Empire
Essay| October 01 1994 Nationalism and the Legacy of Empire Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz is an associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University. He acknowledges the assistance of the Earhart Foundation for its support in writing this paper. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1994) 93 (585): 327–331. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.585.327 Views Icon Vi…
Yemeni Unity and Saudi Security
The Origins of the Vietnam War 1945-1948
Although several years have passed since the end of America's involvement in Vietnam, this war remains a highly controversial subject about which great reservoirs of heated emotion are easily let loose. No consensus has been reached concerning the lessons American foreign policy should have learned from this experience, and perhaps more important, how such situations should be approached in the future. Indeed, the dialogue on Vietnam that has tak…
The Soviet-Cuban Connection
In late April 1982, a news story circulated that then Secretary of State Alexander Haig had privately described Cuban President Fidel Castro as anguishing over an unspecified U.S. offer that could lead to both a rupture in Cuban-Soviet relations and an improvement in Cuban-American ones. 1 If indeed Castro should at some point decide to break away from the U.S.S.R. as China, Yugoslavia, and Albania did before, Soviet foreign policy would suffer a…
The Third World in Soviet Military Thought
First published in 1982, this study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy. Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes towards and expectations from involvement in Third World conflicts. This work from Dr. Katz meditates upon the changing role of the USSR in post-war Third World conflicts, with particular emphasis …
Soviet Policy in the Gulf States
Essay| January 01 1985 Soviet Policy in the Gulf States Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz Guest Scholar, Foreign Polity Studies, The Brookings Institution Mark N. Katz is a Rockefeller Foundation international relations fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), and has recently completed work on a book entitled Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Po…
The Soviet Union and the Third World
Research Article| October 01 1986 The Soviet Union and the Third World Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Mark N. Katz is a research associate at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Smith-sonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 198…
The World of Books
Third World Marxist-Leninist Regimes: Strengths, Vulnerabilities and U.S. Policy. By Uri Ra'anan et al. Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey's (for the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis), 1985. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World: Agenda 1985-86. Edited by John W. Sewell et al. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books (for the Overseas Development Council), 1985. By Mark N. Katz Making the Alliance Work: The United States and Western Europe. …
Soviet Military Policy toward the Third World
Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula
Soviet Power and the Third World
Soviet Policy in the Middle East
Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula
Evolving Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Strategy
The decline of Soviet power: Implications for international relations
Predictions abound concerning the imminent decline of Soviet power and c o m m u n i s m generally. Prominent Western analysts, both conservative and liberal, have pointed to the plethora of problems M o s c o w faces which appear to make Soviet decline inevitable: economic stagnation, lagging technical development , bureaucratic obstruction of needed economic reform, increasing ethnic tension within the U S S R , the mount ing economic and polit…
Soviet Aims in Central America: The Case of Nicaragua
Foreword by Lewis A. Tambs Introduction: The Americas: Soviet and World War III Nicaragua in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1959-1979 From Revolution to Leninist State The Sandinistas and Human Rights From Consolidation to Expanded War Soviet Aims Unmasked: An Appraisal Averting Checkmate: Western Strategy Reconsidered Appendix 1: Maps Appendix 2 Bibliographical Essay Index
Why Does the Cold War Continue in the Third World
1. An Anomaly in Gorbachev's Foreign Policy The Cold War in Europe is coming to an end. Yet despite communist troop withdrawals not only from Eastern Europe but also from Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Angola, conflict in many parts of the Third World still rages on, and both superpowers remain involved in it. Indeed, present Soviet foreign policy toward the Marxist regimes of the Third World is something of an anomaly. It does not appear logical tha…
The Soviet Union and the Gulf in the 1980s
Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy Toward Regional Conflicts
(1991). Beyond the Reagan Doctrine: Reassessing U.S. Policy Toward Regional Conflicts. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 169-179
The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World
Superpower Conflict Resolution: Lessons for the Future
Despite the significant progress that the United States and the USSR have made in cooperating to resolve regional conflicts, many of these conflicts continue. One reason for this is that the Soviet and American governments have had differing expectations regarding what the outcome of superpower conflict resolution efforts should be. Yet even when Soviet and American aims are similar, there are other obstacles to conflict resolution. Among these a…
Yemeni Unity and Saudi Security
The USSR and Iraq: The Soviet Quest for Influence
The legacy of empire in international relations
In the aftermath of the cold war, not only have many nationalist disputes persisted, but many more have erupted, especially in and around the former Soviet Union. Is this nationalist conflict a temporary phenomenon that is likely to disappear, or is it a deep‐seated problem that will persist and possibly grow worse? The working hypothesis that this study will‐examine is that, aside from continued fighting, there are only three alternative outcome…
Nationalism and the Legacy of Empire
Essay| October 01 1994 Nationalism and the Legacy of Empire Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz is an associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University. He acknowledges the assistance of the Earhart Foundation for its support in writing this paper. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1994) 93 (585): 327–331. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.585.327 Views Icon Vi…
A Foreign Policy in Transition: Moscow's Retreat from Central America and the Caribbean, 1985-1992. Jan S. Adams
Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal
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