Professor Katz’s Recent Selected Publications

Russia and Lebanon: A Geopolitical Juggling Act.” The American Interest, October 28, 2016.

Syria: Ceasefire Efforts Cease.” LobeLog, October 4, 2016.

Understanding Syria’s Many Conflicts.” e-International Relations, August 31, 2016.

Russian Bombers in Iran Are a Symbol, Not a Strategy.” National Interest, August 21, 2016.

Why Has Tehran Allowed Russian Bombers to Use an Iranian Base?” LobeLog, August 18, 2016.

“Russian Intervention in the Syrian Civil War.” Russian Analytical Digest, No. 175, 16 November 2015.

“Convergent Hopes, Divergent Realities: Russia and the Gulf in a Time of Troubles.” The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Policy Paper #7, November 6, 2015.

“Assessing Putin’s ‘Fight Them There Not Here’ Strategy.” SyriaSource (Atlantic Council), September 28, 2015.

“Russian Anxieties about the Iranian Nuclear Accord.” LobeLog, August 25, 2015.

“Putin Ignoring China Threat.” The Moscow Times, August 16, 2015.

“America and Iran: Can the Nuclear Deal Lead to Rapprochement?” The National Interest Online, July 23, 2015.

“Broader Geopolitical Implications of the Iranian Nuclear Accord.” LobeLog, July 14, 2015.

“Why Russia Shouldn’t Fear NATO.” The National Interest Online, July 2, 2015.

“The Grand Dilemma: What Is the Most Dangerous Threat to America?” National Interest Online, June 24, 2015.

“ISIS and the Bolshevik Precedent.” LobeLog, October 3, 2014.

Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Revolution: International Dimensions. CQ Press, 2001.

Reflections on Revolutions. Palgrave, 1999.

Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves. Palgrave, 1997.

The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World, Wilson Center/Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Gorbachev’s Military Policy in the Third World. CSIS/Praeger, 1989.

Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

The Third World in Soviet Military Thought. Johns Hopkins University Press/Croom Helm, 1982–reissued by Routledge, 2011.