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Focus Other Languages Just a Few Amazing Predictions!Read how the Communist Party would lose its political monopoly after Brezhnev’s death… published two years before he died! Read how the European Union would deal with Eastern Europe… published two years before the Soviet bloc began to disintegrate! Read about the policy of “the Russian state” in the East Mediterranean… published a year before the USSR abolished itself! Read the origin of a key proposal, now a possible breakthrough to settle the conflict on Cyprus… in a public speech from 1992! Who Is RMC?Robert M. Cutler is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa; and Fellow, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Boston. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BSc, Political Science, 1974), then Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies (Gallatin Fellow, History and International Politics, 1979–80) and finally University of Michigan (PhD, International Relations, 1982), followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Moscow State University and Columbia University. In twenty-five years of professional life, he has made over 130 presentations to professional conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops, including invited public addresses of note; published nearly 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and edited two books; and produced many dozens of briefer situational and policy analyses, including op-ed opinion columns. After a dozen years exclusively in universities, he expanded into policy analysis and consulting. His extensive practical experience includes important aspects of Euro–Caspian and Eurasian energy development. He has written and spoken on a plethora of issues related to energy cooperation, ethnic confict and international security and cooperation over the whole of Eurasia and its various sub-regions. His expertise includes theoretical and empirical work on human information processing and decision making, and also international institutions and regimes. As well, he has consulted in complex organizational design, institutional learning and the management of information, especially in cross-cultural contexts. He has held numerous competitive grants and fellowships and is on the editorial board of half-dozen journals, including: Oil, Gas & Energy Law; Central Eurasian Studies Review; Electronic Journal of World Politics; and Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien. In addition, he has served on the Executive Board of Central Eurasian Studies Society, International Research Foundation for Development (and as its representative to U.N. ECOSOC) as well as other organizations. | Recent ActivitiesResearch – Consulting – Speeches – Seminars – Policy – What’s New Recent Conference PapersHow the European Parliament Is a Complex (Adaptive?) System and Why This Is Important The Structuration of the Greater Central Asian Hydrocarbon Energy Complex Transnational Policies for Conflict Reduction and Prevention in the South Caucasus Organizational Design and Transformation in a Complex World Policies for Conflict Reduction in the South Caucasus Recent ConsultanciesOrganizational Design Specialist, Parliamentarians for Global Action Advisor (on risk analysis, negotiating strategies and pipeline choice) to the Special Assistant to the President, [a major energy company with Caspian Sea region operations] Expert testimony, human rights in Central Asia, U.S. Immigration Court Briefing papers for Centre for European Policy Studies, EastWest Institute and others NGO Representative to the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council for International Research Foundation for Development Recent Workshops & SeminarsThe Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline Project Development of the European Union's European Neighbourhood Program in the South Caucasus The Geo-economics of Central Asian Energy Navigating the Paradox of Intentional Emergent Coherence The Future of European Energy The Central Asian Crucible after September 11 La Turquie entre les politiques énergétiques européenne et américaine Recent SpeechesThe Caucasus North and South, Caspian Energy and Canadian Policy Competition for Energy Resources as a Source of Conflict Finance Issues in Eurasian Energy Development The New Concept of Cooperative Energy Security Energy Resources, Human Resources, and Cooperative Energy Security Policy ExpertiseAnalyses for Asia Times onLine, Central Asia–Caucasus Analyst (Johns Hopkins University), other published outlets and private clients Interviews on BBC, VOA, Radio Moscow, Radio Canada International and others Training Workshop in Civil Society for Conflict Prevention in Central Asia, U.N. University for Peace, Budapest Energy Charter Secretariat Expert Testimony, Immigration Appeals Court, U.S. Department of Justice Invited Testimony, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, House of Commons, Ottawa Multiple Centres of Power Team, Project on Trends, Policy Research Secretariat, Ottawa External Collaborator, Caucasus Working Group, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels | |
What’s NewEnglish original of article in press in Klio (St. Petersburg) Bakunin and the Psychobiographers: The Anarchist as Mythical and Historical Object Article in Oil, Gas & Energy Law Recent Developments in Cooperative Energy Security Article in Études internationales Les mutations soviétiques: Analyses et politiques occidentales Article in Euro-Atlantic Forum Housing the Orphans of European Security: How to Bring Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova in from the Cold Updated résumé as Energy Security Specialist (November 2007, PDF, 181KB) Updated academic curriculum vitae (November 2007, PDF, 378KB) Book chapter De-authoritarization in Uzbekistan?: Analysis and Prospects Article in Canadian Slavonic Studies A Rediscovered Source on Bakunin in 1861: The Diary of F.P. Koe Article in International Studies Quarterly The Political Economy of East–South Military Transfers Book chapter The View From the Urals: West European Integration in Soviet Perspective and Policy Book chapter The Sources of Kazakhstani Conduct Article in International Affairs (London) Harmonizing EEC–CMEA Relations: Never the Twain Shall Meet? Index of materials on Conflict and Security Article in European Security The European Parliament and the European Union Security and Defence Policy Article in Perpsectives on Global Development and Technology A Transnational Policy for Conflict Reduction and Prevention in the South Caucasus Review article in Central Asian Survey Policy Options for Resolving Post-Soviet Ethnic Conflicts Review article in Problems of Communism Economic Issues in East–South Relations Article in Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Current Problems of Global Energy Security: In Light of the Caspian Sea Region’s Recent Experience (PDF, 140Kb) Pre-print of article in Oil, Gas, and Energy Law (Speech at NGO Conference at U.N. Headquarters) The New Concept of Cooperative Energy Security: A Focus for Synthesizing Environmental and Energy Agendas through Local Participation under Sustainable Development (PDF, 166Kb) Introduction to Cooperative Energy Security Pre-print of article in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences The Paradox of Intentional Emergent Coherence: Organization and Decision in a Complex World Pre-print of article in Studia Diplomatica The OSCE’s Parliamentary Diplomacy in Central Asia and the South Caucasus in Comparative Perspective (PDF, 211Kb) Pre-print of article in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology U.S.–Russian Strategic Relations and the Structuration of Central Asia (PDF, 191Kb) Article in Cosmos: Hellenic Yearbook of International Relations Bringing the National Interest Back In: Lessons for Neorealism from the Former Soviet Area “Introduction” to The Basic Bakunin anthology Preliminary full-text mark-up Central Asia and the West since September 11 Indexes of materials on Complexity Science, Comparative Politics Article in Journal of International Affairs The Caspian Energy Conundrum Article in Review of International Affairs Turkey and the Geopolitics of Turkmenistan's Natural Gas Refereed book chapter The Emergence of International Parliamentary Institutions Article in InterJournal The Complex Evolution of International Orders and the Current International Transition Refereed book chapter [The Russian Empire,] The Soviet Union and World Order Article in Soviet Studies The Soviet Union in the 1974 Cyprus Conflict Article in International Organization East–South Relations at UNCTAD Article in World Politics The Formation of Soviet Foreign Policy | ||
Mail: Dr. Robert M. Cutler, Station “H”, Box 518, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2L5,
Canada
Contact: rmc@alum.mit.edu;
tel. (+1 514) 939−2769
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