Prof. Mark Galeotti is principal director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence, as well as an Honorary Professor at UCL, Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and Middle East Institute.
He specialises in Russian security and political affairs, as well as the murky subjects of modern warfare, intelligence, and transnational and organised crime. He has published widely, with more than 20 authored and edited books to his name. He read history at Robinson College, Cambridge University and then took his doctorate in politics at the London School of Economics. Formerly a lecturer at Keele University in the UK, he rose to become head of its History department.
In that time he spent a year at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, as an adviser covering post-Soviet organised crime and Russian security and intelligence services. In 2009-16, Galeotti was Professor of Global Affairs at New York University and for part of that time, chair of the Centre for Global Affairs. He has also been a visiting fellow at Rutgers-Newark, Charles University (Prague) and MGIMO (Moscow). He has also worked with a wide range of institutions, from NATO and Interpol, to national ministries and intelligence agencies, and commercial clients.
Publications
Books authored and edited
The Politics of Security in Modern Russia [edited] (London: Ashgate, 2010)
Organized Crime in History [edited] (London: Routledge, 2009)
Global Crime Today: the changing face of organised crime [edited] (London: Routledge, 2005)
Criminal Russia: a sourcebook and coursebook on 150 years of crime, corruption & policing(Keele, ORECRU, revised 4th edition, 2003)
Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime [edited] (London, Ashgate, 2002)
Putin’s Russia [edited] (London, Jane’s, 2002), co-edited with Ian Synge
Gorbachev and his Revolution (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997). Elements of this book were republished within People Who Made History: Mikhail Gorbachev, edited by Tom Head (New York, Gale: 2003)
Jane’s Sentinel: Russia (Coulsdon, Jane’s, 1997)
Unstable Russia (Coulsdon, Jane’s, 1996)
The Age of Anxiety. Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (Harlow, Longman Higher Academic, 1995). Translated into Czech as Cas Uzkosti (Prague, Orbis, 1998)
Afghanistan: the Soviet Union’s last war (London, Frank Cass, 1995, new edition released in paperback 2001)
The Kremlin’s Agenda (Coulsdon, Jane’s Information Group, 1995)
Chapters in books
‘Russia’, in B Elleman, S Kotkin & C Schofield (eds), China’s Disputed Frontiers: twenty neighbors in Asia (Armonk: ME Sharp, 2012)
‘Turkish organized crime: from tradition to business’ in D Siegel et al (eds), Traditional Crime in the Modern World (New York: Springer, 2011)
‘Crime in post-Soviet societies’, in M Herzog-Evans (ed), Transforming Criminology, Vol. I(Olsterwijk: Wolf Legal, 2011)
‘Introduction’, in M. Galeotti (ed), The Politics of Security in Modern Russia (London: Ashgate, 2010)
‘The Security Apparatus: Putin’s praetorians’, in M. Galeotti (ed), The Politics of Security in Modern Russia (London: Ashgate, 2010)
‘Criminal Histories’, in M. Galeotti (ed), Organized Crime in History (London, Routledge, 2009)
‘The World of the Lower Depths: crime and punishment in Russian history,’ in M. Galeotti (ed),Organized Crime in History (London, Routledge, 2009)
‘The Criminalisation of Russian State Security’, in R Bunker (ed), Criminal States and Criminal-Soldiers (London: Routledge, 2008)
‘Foreword,’ in J Finckenauer, Mafia and Organized Crime (Oxford, OneWorld, 2007)
‘Private Security and Public Insecurity: outsourced vigilantism in modern Russia’, in D Pratten & A Sen (eds), Global Vigilantes (New York: Columbia University Press and London: Hurst, 2007)
‘Global Crime Today’, in M Galeotti (ed), Global Crime Today (London, Routledge, 2005)
‘The Russian Mafia: consolidation and globalization’, in M Galeotti (ed), Global Crime Today(London, Routledge, 2005)
‘”Brotherhoods” and “Associates”: Chechen networks of crime and resistance’, in R Bunker (ed),Networks, Terrorism & Global Insurgency (London, Frank Cass, 2005)
‘What Implications for Russia’s Development have Securitisation, Crime and Corruption?’ in R Larrson (ed), Whither Russia? (Stockholm, FOI, 2004)
‘Special Purpose Forces’ and ‘Ministry of Internal Affairs’, in J Millar (ed), Encyclopedia of Russian History (New York, Gale, 2003)
‘The Challenge of ‘Soft Security’: crime, corruption and chaos’, in D Averre & A Cottey (eds), New Security Challenges in Postcommunist Europe (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002)
‘Transnational Organized Crime: law enforcement as a global battlespace’, in R Bunker (ed),Non-State Threats and Future Wars (London, Frank Cass, 2002)
‘Putin and his Russia’, in M Galeotti (ed), Putin’s Russia (London, Jane’s, 2002)
‘Crime, Chaos and Control’, in M Galeotti (ed), Putin’s Russia (London, Jane’s, 2002)
‘Putin’s Russia: an afterword’, in M Galeotti (ed), Putin’s Russia (London, Jane’s, 2002)
‘Underworld and upperworld: organized crime and global society’, in D Josselin & W Wallace (eds), Non-State Actors in World Politics (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2001)
‘Stealing the Millennium: the Growing Challenge of Organized and Transnational Crime’, in LENS Report 2001 (LENS, London, 2001)
‘The Russia Mafiya: economic penetration at home and abroad’, in A Ledeneva & M Kurkchiyan (eds), Economic Crime in Russia (Amsterdam, Kluwer, 2000)
‘”Who’s the boss: us or the law?” The corrupt art of ruling Russia’, in S Lovell et al (eds), Bribery and Corruption in Russia (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000)
‘The “Power Ministries” and Russian Foreign Policy’, in Godzimirski J (ed) New and Old Actors in Russian Foreign Policy (Oslo, NUPI, 2000)
‘Crime, corruption and the law’, in M Bowker & C Ross (eds), Russia after the Cold War (Harlow, Longman, 2000)
‘The “Russian Mafiya” and Europe’s narcotics problem’, in Interpol and Technology in Partnership: fighting drug trafficking (London, Interpol/National Criminal Intelligence Service, 1999)
‘Organized Crime in the Former Soviet Union: roots, resources and responses’, in OSCE – a need for cooperation (Copenhagen, Danish UN Association, 1997)
‘Russia and Eurasia: Out-of-Area Operations and Peacekeeping’, in R Hall (ed), The World in Conflict, (Coulsdon, Jane’s, 1995)
