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Expert Profile

Mark Galeotti, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
academic chair and clinical associate professor, Center for Global Affairs

Dr. Mark Galeotti is an expert in transnational organized crime, security affairs, and modern Russia, and has had an impressive career which spans teaching, research, the private sector, and government service. Dr. Galeotti has published widely, with 13 authored and edited books to his name and numerous other pieces, from articles in peer-reviewed academic journals to newspaper op-eds. His recent projects include a global history of organized crime and an analysis of the Russian ‘mafiya’.

Areas of Expertise: 

• Transnational organized crime
  
• Security affairs
• Modern Russia

Recent Publications and Research:

• "The Problems of Security in Modern Russia" (edited collection), Ashgate, 2009 (forthcoming)
• "Organized Crime in History" (edited collection), Routledge, 2009
• ‘The world of the lower depths: crime and punishment in Russian history’, Global Crime, Vol. 9, No. 1-2, 2008.
• ‘Private Security and Public Insecurity: outsourced vigilantism in modern Russia', in D Pratten & A Sen (eds), Global Vigilantes, Columbia University Press and Hurst, 2007.
• ‘Forward To The Past: Organized Crime and Cuba's History, Present And Future', Trends in Organized Crime , Vol. 9, No. 3, 2006.
• "Global Crime Today" (edited collection), Routledge, 2005.
• Numerous articles in Jane’s Intelligence Review, Jane’s Intelligence Weekly and the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief.