Dr. Coit Dennis Blacker, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

EDUCATION

Ph.D., International Relations, Fletcher School of Law And Diplomacy, Tufts University (1978)

 M.A., Law and Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law And Diplomacy, Tufts University (1975)

M.A., International Relations, Fletcher School of Law And Diplomacy, Tufts University (1973)

B.A. Political Science, Occidental College, 1972

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – HIGHLIGHTS

Deputy Director, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President

Co-Chair, International Relations and International Policy Studies Programs, Stanford University

Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Director of Studies, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University

Associate Professor, School of International Relations; and Director ad interim, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Southern California

Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Office of Senator Gary Hart, United State Senate

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Doctoris Honoris Causa, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Arms Control and Disarmament Program, Stanford University

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Program for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

 Preparatory Fellow, (Soviet Program), International Research and Exchanges Board, New York

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

Hostage to Revolution: Gorbachev and Soviet Security Policy, 1985-91. New York: Council On Foreign Relations Press, 1993

Reluctant Warriors: the United States, the Soviet Union and Arms Control. New York: Freeman and Co., 1987

Editor, with Gloria Duffy, International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements.Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.

"The Collapse of Soviet Power in Europe." Foreign Affairs 70:1 (February 1991)

"The USSR and Asia in 1989," Asian Survey 30:1 (January 1990)

"The United States-Soviet Détente," Current History 88:540 (October 1989)