Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti (* 1965 ) is a British historian . As Director of ISET (Initiative for the Study of Emerging Threats) at New York University, he deals with international crime and Russian security policy.

Life

Galeotti received his doctorate under Dominic Lieven on the influence of the Afghanistan war on the Soviet Union . After working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and teaching at Keele University , he moved to New York University as director of the Center for International Affairs .

From 1991 to 2006 he wrote a monthly column on Russian and post-Soviet security concerns for Jane's Intelligence Review . He continues to write for Jane's but also for Oxford Analytica , where he covers Russian security policy, international crime and terrorism. From July 2011 to 2013 he wrote a regular column Siloviks & Scoundrels for The Moscow News . In addition, his posts can be viewed on his own blog, In Moscow's Shadows .

In October 2018, following the exposed activities of the GRU military intelligence service in the case of Sergei Skripal and the espionage against WADA and the OPCW, one should talk less about the GRU than about the fact that these actions are the visible tip of the Kremlin's foreign policy. In January 2019, he wrote that the Russian state was mixing its services with criminals for its "work in the dark" abroad.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Initiative for the Study of Emerging Threats
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com
4. ↑ Mark Galeotti on the GRU and Russian adventurism, October 5, 2018 ; "we should not really be talking about the GRU - the GRU is merely an agent (...) but it is at best the bloody leading edge of Kremlin foreign policy"
5. ↑ Gangster Geopolitics: The Kremlin's Use of Criminals as Assets Abroad , The Moscow Times, January 18, 2019