GORDON M. HAHN, Ph.D.

Monterey Institute for International Studies

460 Pierce St., Monterey, CA93940

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Tel. (831) 647-3535

PRESENT POSITIONS

  • Senior Researcher, Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute for International Studies, Monterey, California, July 2007 – present. Responsibilities: research and teach terrorism, Islamism, and domestic and foreign policy in Russia and Eurasia; founded, edits and, unless indicated otherwise, authors the Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER), manage of the Monterey WMD Terrorism Database,
  • Senior Researcher -Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Division of Akribis Group, San Jose, California, February 2006 – present. Responsibilities:Research on Islamism and terrorism in Russiaand Eurasia and international jihadi terrorism.
  • Analyst and Consultant - Russia Media Watch, Russia - Other Points of View, a project associated with the Center for Civic Initiatives, San Francisco, California, 2008 – present. Responsibilities: Analysis of, and consulting on Russian politics and review of Western media coverage and scholarly analysis of politics in Russia.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS/FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS

  • Consultant/Contributing Author, The Century Foundation Gary Hart – Jack Matlock Working Group on U.S.-Russia Relations, September 2008 – February 2009. Responsibilities: Writing a policy paper on “U.S.-Russian Relations and the Struggle against Islamism and Jihadism” as part of a set of policy recommendations for the next U.S. President.
  • MONTEREY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of International Policy Studies, Monterey, California, Course: IPS 689 ‘Islam and Politics in the North Caucasus and Central Asia,’ July 2007 – August 2008.
  • SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, Visiting Assistant Professor,Political Science Department, Courses – ‘Russian Government and Politics’ and ‘Introduction to Comparative Politics,’ January-June 2007.
  • DEMOKRATIZATSIYA: Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Special ‘Perestroika’ Edition Editor, October 2004 – 2006.
  • OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE, Non-Resident Academic Fellow, SmolnyCollege, St. PetersburgStateUniversity (Russia), Program on International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Human Rights, September 2005 – June 2006. Responsibilities: Program and Curriculum Development and Lectures on Russian Politics.
  • UNTIMELY THOUGHTS RUSSIA EXPERTS PANEL, Analyst Commentator, 2004 – June 2006.
  • GEORGE F. KENNAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RUSSIAN STUDIES, WoodrowWilsonCenter for International Scholars, Visiting Scholar, January-February 2005.
  • ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY(St. Petersburg, Russia), School of International Relations,Visiting Professor under a U.S. State Department William J. Fulbright Teaching and Research Scholarship, September 2003 – August 2004. Courses: ‘Regime Transformations: Revolution, Transition, and Democratization in Comparative Perspective’ and ‘Multi-NationalStates, Self-Determination, and Federalism in Comparative Perspective.’
  • STANFORDUNIVERSITY, Hoover Institution, Visiting Scholar, Research – Russian Federalism, Interethnic Relations, Democracy and Russia’s Regions, 31 August 2000 – 31 December 2003.
  • SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, Political Science Department, Adjunct Professor, Introduction to International Relations, August 2002 – August 2003.
  • THE RUSSIA JOURNAL, Political Analyst (weekly analysis on Russian and international politics in weekly newspaper published in Russia and the United States), January-November 2002.
  • STANFORDUNIVERSITY, Political Science Department, Lecturer, “Russian Foreign Policy,” (Graduate and Undergraduate Seminar Course PS122D and PS222D), Winter Quarter 2001.
  • HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION, AND PEACE, StanfordUniversity, Coordinator of Special Russian Research Projects,June 1997 – September 2000. Projects: Hoover Institution-Stanford University-Gorbachev Foundation Oral History Project ‘Ending the Cold War’; Hoover Institution-International Democracy (Yakovlev) Foundation Joint Publishing Project on Soviet History; and The Hoover Institution-State Archive of the Russian Federation Joint Microfilm and Publishing Project.
  • AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF RUSSIAN (ACTR/ACCELS), Research Scholar Program, Title VIII Grantfrom the U.S. Information Agency, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs Regional Scholar Exchange, July 1996 – July 1997, Archival Research in Moscow, 1996 competition.
  • HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION, AND PEACE, Stanford University, Title VIII Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State, 1995 competition.
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C., School of International Service, Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative and Regional Studies Program, January-May 1995. Courses: Russian and Central Eurasian Politics, Graduate Seminar in Russia and Central Eurasia in Comparative Perspective, Graduate Seminar in Soviet and Russian Policy-Making.
  • BOSTONUNIVERSITY, Political Science Department, Lecturer (1991-1994) and International Relations Department (1991-1993), Summer Semesters. Courses: Soviet (Russian) Government (PO 363), Soviet/Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy (IR 375).
  • BOSTONUNIVERSITY, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy, Graduate Research Fellow (August 1989 - July 1993). Research Areas: Communist Party; Soviet/CIS/RussianCivil-Military Relations; Post-Soviet Russia's Politics, Parties, Movements, and Parliamentary Factions.
  • BOSTONUNIVERSITY, International Relations Department, Teaching Fellow. Introductory Course on International Relations (IR 271), September - May 1989.
  • WILLIAM ROBINSON AND ASSOCIATES, International Relations Consultant – Senatorial Election Campaign, Boston, MA, May-August 1988.

EDUCATION

  • BOSTONUNIVERSITY, Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD), Department of Political Science, May 1995. Dissertation – “Gorbachev Versus the CPSU CC Apparat: The Bureaucratic Politics of Reforming the Party Apparat, 1987- 1991” (Passed with distinction); Comprehensive Exams: The Soviet Nationalities Problem, Civil-Military Relations - Theory and Soviet Practice, Eastern/Central European Politics and Political Culture; Language: Russian.
  • BOSTONCOLLEGE, Masters of Arts in Political Science, 1988. Thesis, passed 'with distinction' –"Gorbachev: Building Power in an Era of Change, 1985-1987."
  • BOSTONCOLLEGE, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1986. GPA: 3.431, Cum Laude.

CORE RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Islamism and Muslims of Russia and the Former USSR
  • Federalism, Self-Determination and Inter-communal (Inter-ethnic, Inter-confessional, and Federal-Regional) Politics
  • Comparative Theory of Regime Transformation: Revolutions and Transitions
  • Russian and Eurasian Domestic Politics
  • Russian and Eurasia in International Politics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS

COURSE SYLLABI

  • Islam, Politics, and Political Violence in Russia
  • Terrorism in Eurasia
  • Jihadist Terrorism in the North Caucasus (Russian language course)
  • Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy
  • Regime Transformations in Comparative Perspective
  • Revolution in Comparative Perspective
  • Federalism, Self-Determination and Inter-Communal Relations
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Introduction to International Relations
  • Issues in Eurasian Security
  • Russian Foreign Policy
  • Russian Government and Politics

OTHER TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Comparative Democratization in Communist and Post-CommunistStates
  • Interethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Communist and Post-CommunistStates
  • International Politics in Central Asia
  • International Politics in the Caucasus

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Medvedev, Putin, and Perestroika 2.0 – book.

The Caucasus Emirate: Russia’s Unknown and Denied Jihad – book and articles.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Gordon M. Hahn, Russia’s Islamic Threat (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007). [‘Outstanding Academic Title’ for 2007 by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the American Library Association (ALA) in their CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.]

______, Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition, and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (New Brunswick: TransactionPublishers, 2002).

CO-AUTHORED MONOGRAPHS

Gary Ackerman, Charles Blair, Jeffrey Bale, Gordon Hahn, Elle DiLorenzo, Sundara Vadlamudi, and Christopher Lunsford. The Jericho Option: Al-Qa`ida and Attacks on Critical Infrastructure (San Jose, CA: Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies, 8 June 2006),

BOOK ARTICLES

Gordon M. Hahn, “Islamism in the Russian Federation,” forthcoming in World Almanac of Islamism, 2010 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011).

______, “The Bioterrorism Threat in the Russian Federation,” in Rebecca Katz and Raymond A. Zilinskas, eds., Encyclopedia of Bioterrorism Defense, Second Edition (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., forthcoming in 2010).

______, “The Russian Federation,” in Barry Rubin, ed., Guide to Islamist Movements Vol. 2 (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2009), pp. 493-518.

______, “Russian Federalism under Putin,” in Stephen White, Zvi Gitelman, and Richard Sakwa, eds., Current Developments in Russian Politics - Vol. 6 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005): 148-67.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Gordon M. Hahn, “Medvedev, Putin, and Perestroika 2.0,” Demokratizatsiya, 18, 3 (Summer 2010): 228-259.

______, “The Jihadi Insurgency and the Russian Counterinsurgency in the North Caucasus,” Post-Soviet Affairs, 24, 1 (January-February 2008): 1-39.

______, “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Westernism, and Anti-Semitism Among Russia’s Muslims,”Demokratizatsiya, 16, 1 (Winter 2008): 49-60.

______,“The Perils of Putin’s Policies,” The Journal of International Security Affairs, 10(Spring 2006): 63-71.

______, “The Rise of Islamist Extremism in Kabardino-Balkariya” Demokratizatsiya, 13, 4 (Fall 2005): 543-594.

______, “Managed Democracy?: The Establishment of Stealth Authoritarianism in St. Petersburg,” Demokratizatsiya, 12, 2 (Spring 2004): 185-232.

______, “Party Reform, State Reorganization, and the Soviet Collapse,” forthcoming in Journal of Cold War History Studies,forthcoming in Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2009-2010.

______, “The Impact of Putin’s Federative Reforms on Democratization in Russia,” Post-Soviet Affairs, 19, 2 (April-June 2003): 114-53.

______, “The Past, Present, and Future of the RussianFederalState,” Demokratizatsiya, 11, 3 (Summer 2003): 343-62.

______, “Putin’s Federal Reforms: Integrating Russia’s Legal Space or Destabilizing Russian Federalism,” Demokratizatsiya, 9, 4 (Fall 2001): 498-530.

______, “Putin’s ‘Federal Revolution’: Administrative Versus Judicial Methods of Federal Reform,”East European Constitutional Review, 10, 1 (Winter 2001): 60-67.

______, “From Chernomyrdin to Kirienko and the Rise of the Nizhegorod Group,” Problems of Post-Communism, 45, 5(September-October 1998): 1-15.

______, “The Bureaucratic Politics of the First Reorganization of the CPSU CC Apparat During Perestroika,” Europe-Asia Studies, 49, 2(Spring 1997): 281-302.

______, “Russia's Polarized Political Spectrum,”Problems ofPost-Communism, 43, 3(May-June 1996): 11-22.

______, “The Politics of Transition at the XXVIII CPSU Congress and the Central Committee Open Letter,”RussianHistory/Histoire Russe, 22, 4(1995): 375-405.

______, “Opposition Politics in Russia,”Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies), 46, 2(Spring 1994): 305-335.

______, “Researching Perestroika in the Archive of the TsK KPSS,”The Russian Review, 53, 3(Fall 1994): 419-423.

CO-AUTHORED, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Gordon M. Hahn and David Foglesong, “Ten Myths About Russia: Understanding and Dealing with Russia’s Complexity and Ambiguity,” Problems of Post-Communism, 49, 6(November-December 2002): 3-15.

______, “Десять мифов о России,” RossiyaXXI, 10, 2, 2003: 104-37.

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

Gordon M. Hahn, “The Caucasus Emirate: Unknown and Denied Jihad in Russia’s North Caucasus,” forthcoming inperConcordiam (MarshallCenter, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany),Vol. 1, No. 2, 2010,

______, “Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Issue,” Demokratizatsiya Special Edition for the 20th Anniversary of Gorbachev’s Rise to Power,” Demokratizatsiya, 13, 2, Spring 2005, pp. 1-9.

______, “Государство, общество, инестабильностьвРоссии,” (State, Society and Instability in Russia), VIP, 2, 11, November 1998: 34.

______, “An Autopsy of the Soviet Economy,” Hoover Digest, 2, 4, Fall 1998: 174-77.

______, “The Truth about the Great Terror,”Hoover Digest, 2, 3, Summer 1998: 140-44.

______, “The Unknown Opposition to Soviet Rule,” Hoover Digest, 2, 2, Spring 1998: 183-88.

______, “Revelations from the Soviet Party Archives: A Window on Perestroika,” Hoover Digest, 2, 1, Winter 1998: 140-44.

RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND INTERNET PUBLICATIONS

Gordon M. Hahn, “Russia,”WorldAlmanac of Islamism, American Foreign Policy Council,

______, “U.S.-Russian Relations and the War Against Jihadism,” Century Foundation Hart-Matlock Russia Working Group Paper, May 2009,

______, “The Lessons Unlearned,” Russia Profile, 16 February 2009,

______,“The Caucasus Emirate’s New Tactics,” Mideast Monitor, 3, 3, December 2008,

______, “Look Who Is Talking,” Russia Profile, 6 October 2008,

______, “The Making of the Georgian Five-Day War: A Chronology of Military and Violent Events, June-August 7, 2008,”Johnson's Russia List, #173, 24 September 2008,

______, “A Dangerous Enemy to Make,” Russia Profile, 26 August 2008,

______,“The Politics of Unleashing,” Russia Profile, 1 July 2008,

______, “Russia’s Arab Gambit,” Russia Profile, 1 April 2008,

______, “The New Caucasus Emirate?”,Russia Profile, 29 November 2007,

______, «Роковоерешение» (“Fateful Decision”), Эксперт Online, 13 February 2007,

______,“Sadulaev’s Death, Umarov’s Ascendancy, and Implications for Terrorism in Russia,” Russia and Eurasia Terror Watch, Analysis Brief No. 8, 30 June 2006, home.cfm?articleId=2577.

______,“Debunking the Case Against Putin’s Authoritarianism,” Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Russian Political Weekly, Vol. 5, No. 7, 18 February 2005, rpw/2005/02/7-180205.asp.

______, “Is Russia’s Next Revolutionary Wave Coming?” Untimely Thoughts.com, 2 February 2005,

______,“Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Russia Invasion?,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Russian Political Weekly, Vol.4, No. 48, 16 December 2004,

12/48-161204.asp.

______,“The Chechnya-Tatarstan Connection,” Carnegie Endowment for InternationalPeaceMoscowCenter, 21 June 2004,

______, “Putin’s ‘Stealth Authoritarianism’ and Russia’s Second Revolutionary Wave,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Regional Analysis, Vol. 4, Nos. 14-16, 16, 23, and 30 April 2004,

______, “Putin’s ‘Stealth Authoritarianism,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Russian Political Weekly, 21 April 2004,

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______, “The Results of the 2003 Russian State Duma Elections in St. Petersburg,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, MoscowCenter, 2003 Duma Elections– St.Petersburg), 2 February 2004,

______, “Putin Provoking Communalism,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, The Russian Federation Votes 2003-04, 6 January 2004,

Article.aspx?ID=FF37FFAB-2E5C-4355-8EB1-E73B62E6E885&M=1&Y=2004 and Radio FreeEurope/Radio LibertyNewsline, Part 1: Russia and Eurasia, Vol. 8, No. 4, 8 January 2004.

______, “Previews of the 2003 St. Petersburg Single Mandate District Races for the Russian State Duma,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center, 2003 DumaElections – St. Petersburg, 4 December 2003,

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______, “Stealth Authoritarianism: Setting the Stage for the Federal Election Cycle in St. Petersburg,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center, 2003 Duma Elections - St. Petersburg, 5 November 2003,

______, “A Federation for Iraq,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline, 7, 88, 12 May 2003,

______, “Trip Report: Politics in St. Petersburg, August-September 2001.” EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report, 6, 37, 24 October 2001,

______, “Kirienko and the Rise of the Nizhegorod Group,” Analysis of Current Events (Nationalities Studies Association’s newsletter), 10, 5, May 1998: 9-11.

______, “Russian Domestic Politics and NATO Expansion,” Focus (Washington, D.C.: Center for Political and Strategic Studies), 4, 6, August-September 1997: 1-6.

______, “Gorbachev Versus the Apparat?” Perspective (Boston: BostonUniversity’s Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), 1, 1, 1990: 2-3, 7.

SELECTED ARTICLES FROM ISLAM, ISLAMISM AND POLITICS IN EURASIA REPORT (editor – Gordon M. Hahn)

Gordon M. Hahn, “Sheik Said Abu Saad Buryatskii: New Basaev of the Caucasus,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 1, 3 November 2009,

______, “The Caucasus Emirate’s New Groove: The 2009 Summer Offensive,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 2, 20 November 2009,

______, “The Caucasus Emirate’s Return to Suicide Bombing and Mass Terrorism,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 3, November 30, 2009,

______, “The Caucasus Emirate Returns to the ‘Far Enemy’?: The ‘Nevskii Express’ Bombing,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 4, December 10, 2009,

______, “Buryatskii, Istishkhad, and the Riyadus-Salikhin Suicide Martyrs’ Battalion,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 5, December 18, 2009,

______, “Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi and the Caucasus Emirate,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 6, January 8, 2010,

______, “The Dzhaniev Affairs,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 6, January 8, 2010,

______, “The Caucasus Emirate’s ‘Year of the Offensive’ in Figures: Data and Analysis on the Caucasus Emirate’s Terrorist Activity in 2009,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 7, January 18, 2010,

______, “Comparing the Level of Caucasus Emirate Terrorist Activity in 2008 and 2009,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 8, February 5, 2010.

______, “Who Is Mr. Seif Islam?,” Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report, No. 9, February 24, 2010.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND CONTENT ANALYSES, ‘RUSSIA – OTHER POINTS OF VIEW’ AND RUSSIA MEDIA WATCH (

Articles

Gordon M. Hahn, “Why Putin Will Not return to the Presidency...Not in 2012 Anyway,”Russia Other Points of View,28 January 2011,

______, “Zakaev: The Whole Story,” Russia – Other Points of View, 29 September 2010,

______, “Is A Russian ‘Thaw’ Coming?,” Russia: Other Points of View, 18 April 2008,

______, “More Signs of a Possible Thaw Under Medvedev,” Russia: Other Points of View, 2 June 2008,

______, “Russia and Its Early ‘New Political Thinking’,” Russia Other Points of View, 27 May 2010,

______,“The Thaw Continues,” Russia Other Points of View, 9 November 2010,

______,“(Un)civil Jihad in the Caucasus Emirate,” Russia – Other Points of View, 28 August 2009,

______, “The Obama-Medvedev Summit,” Russia – Other Points of View, 8 July 2009,

______, “Russia’s Counter-Terrorism Operation in Chechnya Ends – the Jihadi Insurgency Continues,” Russia – Other Points of View, 11 May 2009,

______, “The Making of the Georgian-Russia Five-Day August War, June – August 8, 2008,” Russian - Other Points of View, 22 September 2008,

______, “Georgia’s Propaganda War (Long Version),” Russia - Other Points of View, 5 September 2008,

______, “Georgia’s Propaganda War,” Russia - Other Points of View, 5 September 2008,

______, "The Foibles of August: The Russo-Georgian War and Its Present Implications," Russia - Other Points of View, 18 August 2008,

______,“The Siloviki Downgraded in Russia’s Configuration of Power,” Russia: Other Points of View, 21 July 2008,

______, “The Treatment of Russian Journalists in Comparative Perspective,”Russia: Other Points of View, 24 July 2008,

______, “Ukrainian-Russian-Western Triangular Relationship – Underreported Aspects,” Russia: Other Points of View, 20 June 2008,

______, “The Case of Ukraine – a Primer: the U.S., Russia and Tensions in the CIS,” Russia: Other Points of View, 20 June 2008,

______,“Russian Skinheads – Russia’s Gravest Threat,” Russia: Other Points of View, 18 June 2008,

______, “The Case of Georgia – a Primer: the U.S., Russia and Tensions in the CIS,” Russia: Other Points of View, 11 June 2008,

______, “More Signs of a Possible Thaw Under Medvedev,” Russia: Other Points of View, 2 June 2008,

______, “Russia and The Unintended Consequences of Kosovo's Independence,” Russia: Other Points of View, 30 May 2008,

______, “Putin’s Constitutional Coup,” Russia: Other Points of View, 23 May 2008,

______,“Colored Revolutions Darken,”Russia: Other Points of View, 18 April 2008,

______,“Is A Russian ‘Thaw’ Coming?,” Russia: Other Points of View, 18 April 2008,

______,Response to Robert Kagan“Old Europe, New Europe”, Washington Post, February 6, 2008, Russia: Other Points of View - Russia Media Watch,

Selected Content Analyses

Gordon M. Hahn, Content Analysis of Testimony of Ambassador William J. Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, September 17, 2008,”Russia Media Watch - Russia: Other Points of View, September 29, 2008,

______, Content Analysis of Robert Kagan, “Putin Makes His Move,” Washington Post, August 11, 2008, Russia: Other Points of View - Russia Media Watch, 15 August 2008,