Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff

Biography:

Jeffrey Mankoff is deputy director and fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, and an adjunct professor of security studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He was a 2010–2011 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow based in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked on political-military affairs and strategic planning.

From 2008 to 2010, he was associate director of International Security Studies at Yale University and adjunct fellow for Russia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was a John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, a Henry Chauncey Fellow at Yale University, and a fellow at Moscow State University. He has taught at Yale, Moscow State, Georgetown, and Columbia universities.

Dr. Mankoff is the author of the book Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics, and a frequent commentator on Russian/Eurasian affairs and U.S. foreign policy. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, The International Herald Tribune, and many other publications.

His areas of expertise include Russian/Eurasian affairs, great power relations, foreign policy decision making, ethnic conflict, and energy security. Dr. Mankoff also teaches courses on international security, Russian and Central Asian affairs, and modern diplomatic and military history. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in diplomatic history, as well as his M.A. in political science from Yale, and his B.A. in international studies and Russian from the University of Oklahoma.