Author: Mark N. Katz
Fuller name: Mark Norman Katz
Alternate names: Mark N Katz
Title: Professor
Born: 11 November 1954
Dates: 22 August 2009
Bio: Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George 
Mason University. He writes on Russian foreign policy, the 
international relations of the Middle East, transnational revolutionary 
movements, and other subjects.

He earned a B.A. in international relations from the University of 
California at Riverside in 1976, an M.A. in international relations from 
the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International 
Studies in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1982.

Before starting to teach at George Mason University in 1988, he was a 
research fellow at the Brookings Institution (1980-81), held a 
temporary appointment as a Soviet affairs analyst at the U.S. 
Department of State (1982), was a Rockefeller Foundation 
international relations fellow (1982-84), and was both a Kennan 
Institute research scholar (1985) and research associate (1985-87). 
He has also received a U.S. Institute of Peace fellowship (1989-90) 
and grant (1994-95), and several Earhart Foundation fellowship 
research grants. He was a visiting scholar at the Hokkaido University 
Slavic Research Center (June-July 2007), and at the Kennan Institute 
(January 2008).

He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns 
Hopkins University Press, 1982), Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign 
Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins University 
Press, 1986), Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Center 
for Strategic and International Studies, 1989), Revolutions and 
Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin's Press, 1997), and Reflections on 
Revolutions (St. Martin's Press, 1999). He is also the editor of The 
USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World (Wilson 
Center/Cambridge University Press, 1990), Soviet-American Conflict 
Resolution in the Third World (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1991), 
and Revolution: International Dimensions (CQ Press, 2001).

Katz is also a contributor to the Open Society Institute’s Eurasianet, and to Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH).