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Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti (born October 1965) is a British historian, lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs and director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence. He is an honorary professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies,[1] a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute,[2] and an associate fellow in Euro-Atlantic geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy.[3]

The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War, 2022 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press)

Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, 2022 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing)

A Short History of Russia, 2020 (New York: Hanover Square) and 2021 (London: Ebury)

Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine, 2019. (London: Osprey)

We Need to Talk About Putin, 2019. (London: Ebury)

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Russian Political Warfare: moving beyond the hybrid, 2019. (London: Routledge)

Kulikovo 1380: the battle that made Russia, 2019 (London: Osprey)

The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (), 2018 (London and New Haven: Yale University Press) – also licensed for translation in 11 other languages, to date. Simon Sebag Montefiore described it as a "brilliant, gripping, astonishingly rich, important book".[17]

in Russian

The Modern Russian Army, 1992-2016, 2017. (London: Osprey) – also published in Polish and Italian

Hybrid War or Gibridnaya Voina? Getting Russia’s non-linear military challenge right, 2016. (Prague: Mayak)

Spetsnaz: Russia’s special forces, 2015. (London: Osprey) – also published in Swedish

Russia’s Chechen Wars, 2014. (London: Osprey) – also published in Romanian

Galeotti, Mark (2013). Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991. London: Osprey.  9781780961057.

ISBN

Paths of Wickedness and Crime: the underworlds of the Renaissance Italian city, 2012. (New York: Gonfalone)

The Politics of Security in Modern Russia [edited], 2010. (London: Ashgate)

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Organised Crime in History [edited], 2009. (London: Routledge)

Global Crime Today: the changing face of organised crime [edited], 2005. (London: Routledge)

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Criminal Russia: a sourcebook and coursebook on 150 years of crime, corruption & policing, 2003. (Keele, ORECRU, revised 4th edition)

Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime [edited], 2002. (London, Ashgate)

Putin's Russia [edited], 2002 (London, Jane's), 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 Čas Úzkosti (Prague, Orbis, 1998)

Afghanistan: the Soviet Union's last war (London, Frank Cass, 1995, new edition released in paperback 2001)

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The Kremlin’s Agenda (Coulsdon, Jane’s Information Group, 1995)

Official page at IIR

Blog: In Moscow's Shadows

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Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti's column in The Moscow Times

Mark Galeotti's column in War on the Rocks