Mark Galeotti is a long-time Russia-watcher, even though Moscow banned him this year. He is an Honorary Professor at University College London and Executive Director of the UK-based consultancy Mayak Intelligence, and is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. He read history at Cambridge and took his doctorate in government at the LSE, and after a stint with the British Foreign Office has been a scholar and thinktanker in New York, Moscow, Prague, Florence and London. A prolific author, his most recent books include the forthcoming Putin’s Wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Weaponisation of Everything (Yale, 2022), We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury, 2019) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale, 2018).
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)
