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Expertise:
- U.S. Policy toward Central Asia, including Afghanistan
- Central Asian Politics and Society.
- State-Building in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
- Politics and Society of Afghanistan.
- Oil and Gas Development in the Caspian Sea.
- Islam and Radical Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

S. Frederick Starr
Chairman

S. Frederick Starr is Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. He is a Research Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His research, which has resulted in twenty books and 200 published articles, focuses on the rise of pluralistic and voluntary elements in modern societies, the interplay between foreign and domestic policy, and the relation of politics and culture.

Among Starr's most important works are Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union (1983); Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans, 1800-1900 (1989 and 1998); Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (1994, Editor); Strategic Assessment of Central Eurasia (co-author, 2001); Xinjiang: China 's Muslim Borderland (2004, Editor). He is a frequent commentator on the affairs of the region, and the author of numerous articles in journals including Foreign Affairs, The National Review, Far East Economic Review, and op-eds in various leading American and international newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and others.

Starr holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, an MA from King's College, Cambridge University, and a BA from Yale University. He is also the holder of honorary degrees from Middlebury College, Olivet College, Marietta College, and Loyola University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Tri-Lateral Commission.

At the side of his position at the Center, Dr. Starr is also Rector Pro Tem of the University of Central Asia, and a Trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Prior to Founding the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Dr. Starr served as founding Director of the Kenna Institute for Advanced Russian Studies 1974-79; as Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Tulane University in 1979-1982; as Scholar-in-Residence of the Historical New Orleans Foundation in 1982-83. He was appointed President of Oberlin College in 1983, a position he held for eleven years. In 1994-96, he served as President of the Aspen Institute. Dr. Starr served as an advisor on Soviet Affairs to President Reagan in 1985-86 and to President George H.W. Bush in 1990-92. Since 1995, he has chaired as well as served on the Historical Review Panel to advise the Director of Central Intelligence on the declassification of documents. From 1996 to 2001, he served as Director of the Sidanko energy corporation.

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NEW

S. Frederick Starr, "Don't Play Politics with Kazakhstan", The Washington Post, 27 September 2006.

Zeyno Baran, S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Implications for the EU, CACI & SRSP Silk Road Paper, July 2006.


Svante E. Cornell & S. Frederick Starr, The Caucasus: A Challenge for Europe, Uppsala & Washington: CACI & SRSP Silk Road Paper, June 2006.





S. Frederick Starr, Clans, Authoritarian Rulers and Parliaments in Central Asia, Uppsala & Washington: CACI & SRSP Silk Road Paper, June 2006.



John Daly, Kurt Meppen, Vladimir Socor, and Frederick Starr, Anatomy of a Crisis: U.S.-Uzbekistan Relations, 2001-2005, February 2006.




S. Frederick Starr, Karl F. Inderfurth, and Marvin G. Weinbaum, "Don't Shortchange Afghanistan Again", International Herald Tribune , 22 January 2006.

S. Frederick Starr and Vladimer Papava, "In the Caucasus, a Neo-Imperial Russian Revival", syndicated article, appearad among other in Daily Starr, Korea Herald, and Taipei Times.

S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Eds, The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Oil Window to the West, Washington and Uppsala: CACI & SRSP, 2005.

S. Frederick Starr, A 'Greater Central Asia Partnership' for Afghanistan and Its `Neighbors , Silk Road Paper, March 2005.

S. Frederick Starr, 'Central Asia in the Global Economy', Foreign Policy, September/October 2004.

Books

The Archeology of Hamilton County, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1960; 2nd ed., 1967, (Review, American Journal of Anthropology, 63:5:1138)

Editor, The Horizon Book of Russian Art, New York, NY, 1970.

Decentralization and Self-Government in Russia, 1830-1870, Princeton University Press, 1972.

August von Haxthausen, Studies on the Russian Interior, translation edited by S.F.S. with biography of author by S.F.S., from Studien uber die inneren Zustande.Russlands, 3 vols., Hannover and Berlin, 1972; Italian edition: Viaggio nell' interno della Russia, Milan, 1977. Nominated for National Book Award.

With Cyril Black et al., The Modernization of Japan and Russia, a Comparative Study, The Free Press (Macmillan), New York, 1975.

Melnikov: Solo Architect in a Mass Society, Princeton University Press, 1978; 2nd ed., 1981.

Editor, with D. F. Trask, M.O. Gustafson, etc., The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations, 1765-1815, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980. Russian edition: Soedinennye Shtaty i Rossiia: ustanovlenie otnoshenii, 1765-1815, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1980.

Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, Oxford University Press, 1983. German edition: Red and Hot: Jazz in Russland: 1917-1990, Robert Azderball Hannibal-Verlag, 1990.

New Orleans Unmasqued: Being a Wagwit's Sketches of a Singular American City, Dedeaux Publishing, 1985.

Editor, Russia's American Colony, Duke University Press, 1987.

Editor, Oberlin Book of Bandstands, The Preservation Press, 1987.

Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans , 1800-1900, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989.

Red and Hot: Jazz in Russland 1917-1990 (German language edition of the 1983 original Red and Hot), Hannibal-Verlag, Vienna, Austria, 1990.

Editor, Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, M. E. Sharpe, 1994.

Very unofficial Reports from the President: To The Board of Trustees of Oberlin College 1983-1994. Affectionate Doodles from Board Meetings and Diverse Other Meetings at Oberlin. Oberlin Ohio, J.D. Cox, Inc., 1994.

Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans, 1800-1900, MIT Press, 1989: Revised and rephotographed new edition Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.

"Report of the Commission on the Establishment of an New Institution of Higher Education at Khorog, Tajikistan, established by President Rakhmonov of Tajikistan and His Highness the Aga Khan," (Russian and English editions), Karachi, 1999.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk, University of Illinois Press, 2000. Originally published in 1995 under title Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Oxford University Press.

Editor, Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn, University Press of Missisippi, 2001.

With Charles Fairbanks, C. Richard Nelson and Kenneth Weisbrode, Strategic Assessment of Central Eurasia, The Atlantic Council and Central Asia-Caucaus Institute, SAIS, 2001.

With Graham S. Fuller, The Xinjiang Problem, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, 2003.

Editor, Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2004.

Articles

"Tsarist Government: the Imperial Dimension", Soviet Nationality Policies and Practices, Jeremy R. Azrael, ed., Praeger Publishers, 1978, pp. 3-38.

"Art and Society in Revolutionary Russia " (review of five works), Problems of Communism, vol. 27, no. 6, November-December 1978, pp. 70-73.

"Hardliners and Softliners: More Heat Than Light? Themes and sub-themes in the SALT II Debate," Papers on International Issues, no. 2, August 1979, The Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.

"The Social Character of Stalinist Architecture," Architecture Association Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 2, 1979, pp. 49-55.

"Le Corbusier and the USSR: New Documentation", Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietque, vol. 21, no. 2, April-June 1980, pp. 209-21; also published under title "Le Corbusier and the U.S.S.R.: New Documentation", Oppositions - A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture (Institute for Architecture and Urban Affairs, MIT), vol. 23, Winter 1981, pp. 123-137.

"Negotiating on Arms: It's No One-Way Street and Getting There is Half the Fun," The New York Times, August 16, 1981.

"Human Rights and the Carter Administration," Tulane Law Review, vol. 56, no. 1, December 1981, pp. 132-47.

"A Jazz Bridge ot the Soviet Union," New Orleans Magazine, April 1983, pp. 52-55.

"Soviet Jazz: The Third Wave," Russian Jazz New Identity, Leo Feigin, ed., Quartet Books Limited, London, 1985, pp. 3-10.

"Why Americans Should Study the USSR - And How," delivered at the inauguration of The Center for Soviet and East European Studies, April 24, 1985, published by University of Pennsylvania, 1985.

"Taking a Fresh Look at a Changing USSR," Newsday, Ideas Section, July 7, 1985, p.1.

"Gorbachev's Risky Domestic Reforms," The New York Times, Editorial Page, September 19,1985.

"We Can't Talk to the Russians, Exchanging Students is Fine, but Who Speaks Their Language?" Washington Post, January 5, 1986, p. D5; also published under title " Learning an adversary's language, The Providence Journal, and The Evening Bulletin (Providence, RI) January 9, 1986; under title "A lesson in communicating", The Knickerbocker News (Albany, NY), January 9, 1986; under title "Language barrier impedes cultural exchange", News (Harrisburg, PA), January 10, 1986; under title "Americans should study Russian", Monitor (Concord, NH), January 10, 1986; under title "Learning the language is key to U.S.-Soviet exchange", Time, (Greenwich, CT), January 13. 1986; under title "Lesson of Sputnik lost in American Schools", Recorder, (Amsterdam, NY), January 14, 1986; under title " "U.S. Ignorance of Russian May Doom Youth-Exchange Idea", Salt Lake Tribune, January 17, 1986 and various other city papers in the U.S.

"The Changing Nature of Change in the USSR," Gorbachev's Russia, Seweryn Bailer and Michael Mandelbaum, eds., Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1988, pp. 3-35.

"Changes in Soviet Society" (testimony before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 17, 1988); printed in United States-Soviet Relations: 1988, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988, pp. 212-27.

"The Soviet Union: A Civil Society," Foreign Policy, no. 70, Spring 1988, pp. 26-41; excerpts also published in Surviving Together: A Journal of Soviet-American Relations, Spring, 1988, pp. 11-13.

"Gorbachev's Two Constraints: Labor and National Minorities", Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, March 17, 1988.

"Kak my izuckaem sovetskii soiuz," Literaturnaia gazeta, no. 49, December 7, 1988, p. 15.

"Reform in Russia: A Peculiar Pattern," The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 2, Spring 1989, pp. 37-50; reprinted in Annual Editions, Western Civilization, Volume II, William Hughes, ed., Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, CT, 1991, pp. 183-92.

"Civil Society and the Impediments of Reform," Toward a More Civil Society? The USSR Under Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, William Green Miller, ed., Ballinger Publishing Company, 1989, pp. 304-09.

"The Gorbachev Era in Perspective: The End of Ideology?", testimony before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, April 12, 1989.

"Volatile Soviet Situation Needs No 'Help' From Outsiders," Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1989, part 5, p. 5.

"Russia's Democratic Roots: A Usable Past," New Republic, vol. 200, no. 20, May 15, 1989, pp. 24-27; reprinted in Russian American Review, Winter/ Spring 1990, pp. 6-10; also published under the title " The flowering of Russia's liberal tradition", The Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 1989, p B3; also published under the title "Russlands liberale Wurzeln, Die Zeit, no. 6, February 2, 1990

"Party Animals: can Gorbachev continue to control the U.S.S.R.'s increasingly unruly political menagerie?" The New Republic, vol. 200, no. 26, June 26, 1989, pp. 18-21.

"Soviets Face Up to an Inglorious War," Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1989, part II, p. 5; also printed as "Soviets Reminded of Grim War with Finland," The Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 8, 1989, p. B7; also printed as ?, Washington Post, July? 1989.

"Pooped Party: A leaked transcript of a conference at Moscow's Higher Part School shows a major ideological slippage", The New Republic, December 4, 1989.

"Gorbachev's Slipping Grip," The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 1989.

"The Road to Reform," Chronicle of a Revolution: A Western-Soviet Inquiry into Perestroika, Abraham Brumberg, ed., Pantheon Books, New York, 1990, pp.17-29.

"Soviet Union: A Civil Society," Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings (7th edition), Roy C. Macridis and Bernard E. Brown, eds., Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1990, p. 193.

"The Disintegration of the Soviet State," The Wall Street Journal, February 6, 1990.

"Soviet Nationalities in Crisis," Journal of Soviet Nationalities, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1990, p. 76-90.

"Gorbachev's Choice: Empire or Market," The Wall Street Journal, November 16, 1990, p. A-14.

"A Usable Past", The Soviet System in Crisis: a Reader of Western and Soviet Views, Alexander Dallin and Gail W. Lapidus, eds., Westview Press, 1991, pp. 11-15.

"The Third Sector in the Second World," World Development, vol. 19, no. 1, January 1991, pp. 65-71.

"Will the Soviet Union split apart? At this moment nobody knows." Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Subcommittee on European Affairs, March 6, 1991.

"The Novoe Ogarevo Agreement of April 23, 1991, and its Implications", Testimony before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 16. 1991.

"Moscow must face unfinished business: The USA should get in step with the yearnings of those who foiled the coup", USA Today, August 26, 1991.

"The USSR: A New Psychology," (keynote address) Selected Papers Delivered at the NEH Symposium in Russian Language and Culture, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Center for Russian Language and Culture (CORLAC), Friends School of Baltimore, 1991, pp. 1-8.

"Year One of Capitalism in Russia," Hudson Briefing Paper, no. 150, March 1993, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis; also in K.C. Jones: The Newspaper of Politics & Polemics, no. 52, February, 1993, p. 10; reprinted with title "Russia's Dirty Little Secret: Despite Yeltsin's Political Crisis, There is Room for Hope " in The International Economy, March-April 1993, pp.55-58; We/My (Moscow, Russia), February 21, 1993, p. 5; and by the Center for Post -Soviet Studies, Washington, DC.(no copies for highlighted stuff)

"Rutskoi: Moscow's Man in the Wings," Baltimore Sun, March 28, 1993, p. 1C, 4C; also in K.C. Jones: The Newspaper of Politics & Polemics, no. 55, May, 1993, p. 14.

"The Influence of History on the Foreign Policies of the Post-Soviet States", The Legacy of History and Foreign Policy: Russia and the New States of Eurasia, Karen Dawishen and Bruce Parrott, eds., M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

"United States Policy and National Development in the Post-Soviet States," Securing Peace in the New Era - Politics in the Former Soviet Union and The Challenge to American Security, The Aspen Institute, Queenstown, Maryland, 1994, pp. 11-35. Reprinted in The Successor States to the USSR, John W. Blaney, ed., Washington, 1995, pp. 265-279.

"It's Up to Us to Defuse the Rwandan Time Bomb," The Washington Post, September 6, 1994.

"Chechnya: The U.S. Interest," The Wall Street Journal, December 22, 1994.

"Russian Politics After Chechnya", U.S. Relations with Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Aspen Institute Congressional Program, vol. 10, no. 4, 1995, pp. 7-10.

"The'Glass is Half Full' Case for Russia: How unreliable statistics are understating growth," The International Economy, March/ April 1995, pp. 46-47, 56.

"The Paradox of Yeltsin's Russia," The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1995, pp. 66-73.

"The Logic of Russia's New Communists", Christian Science Monitor, ?, 1995.

"Democracy in Russia: a Work in Progress," The Christian Science Monitor, December 13, 1995, p. 19.

"A Russian Politician to Reckon With," The Christian Science Monitor, December 15, 1995, p. 19.

"Conclusion: Toward a Post-Soviet Society", Russian Culture at the Crossroads, Dmitri N. Shalin, ed., Westview Press, Boulder, CO., 1996, pp. 313-319.

"Central Asia Claims its Heritage," UNESCO Sources, no. 83, October 1996, pp. 7-8.

"Making Eurasia Stable", Foreign Affairs, volume 75, no. 1, January/February 1996, pp. 80-92.

"Stay Loose on Russian vote", The Plain Dealer, May 22, 1996, p. 11-B.

"Weaning Russia's New Colleges From Western Aid", The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 1996, vol. XLIII, no. 9, pp. A60.

"Power Failure: American Policy in the Caspian," National Interest, No. 47, Spring 1997, pp.20-31.

"The Fate of Empire in Post-Tsarist Russia and in the Post-Soviet Era", The End of Empire? The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative Perspective, Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds., M.E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 243-260.

"Democratization in Central Asia: the Public's View", (in Russian), Demokraticheskie Protsessy v Tsentral'noi Azii : opyty i perspektivy, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. and International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 1998, pp. 5-13.

Preface in Uzbekistan on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century, by Islam Karimov, Cambridge, Mass., 1998, pp. xi-xvi.

"Is Central Asia Central to Asia?", Far East Economic Review, 1998.

"Caspian Oil: Pipelines and Politics," with Thomas R. Stauffer and Julia Nanay, Middle East Policy, vol. V, no.4, January 1998, pp.27-49.

With Richard Erickson et al "Six Years after the Collapse of the USSR", Post-Soviet Affairs (formerly Soviet Economy), vol. 14, no., 1, January-March 1998, pp.1-22.

"U.S. Interests in the Central Asian Republics," Statement before the House Committee on International Relations) Sub-Committee on Asia and the Pacific), February 1998.

"Petro-State: Wondering About the Future of Russia? It All Comes Down to the Price of Oil," The International Economy, vol. XII, no. 6, November/December ,1998, pp. 48-50.

"Being Rich Will Not Be Enough. Oil and Policy in Central Asia and the Caucasus," Central Eurasian Review, vol.1, No.1, pp 20-23, 1998.

"The Geopolitical Situation of Azerbaijan," U.S. Investment Guide to Azerbaijan, U.S. Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, 1999.

"So Far, Kyrgyzstan's Good Deeds Have Not Gone Unpunished," Christian Science Monitor, 1999.

"Lands of the Former USSR Seven Years On," Post-Soviet Prospects, vol. VII, no. 1, February, 1999, pp. 1-8.

"Tiny Kyrgyzstan follows the West's rules but gets no rewards", The Boston Globe, February 15, 1999.

"Economic and Social Development in Mountain Areas", abstract of conference report published by the Ministry of Education and Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Tajik Technical University. Paper delivered at conference on "Mountain regions of Central Asia: Sustainable Development Issues", Dushanbe, Tajikistan , 25-30 September, 1999.

"The Security Environment of Central Asia," The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1999 Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

"Civil Society in Central Asia," Civil Society in Central Asia, M. Holt Ruffin and Daniel Waugh, eds., Center For Civil Society International, Seattle, and the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Washington DC; University of Washington Press, 1999, pp. 27-33.

The Problem of Islamic Extremism," testimony before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, November 2, 1999.

"Afghanistan Land Mine", The Washington Post, December 19, 2000, p. A39.

"Land Mine in Afghanistan: Anti-Muslim Fervor Isn't Smart", International Herald Tribune, December 20, 2000.

"Scaling Batken's Mountain of Problems", The Times of Central Asia, vol. 3, no. 10, March 8, 2001.

"Batken Today", Central Asia Monitor, no.2, 2001, pp. 1-3.

"Altitude Sickness", The National Interest, no. 65, Fall 2001, pp. 90-100.

"Afghan Northern Alliance Makes a Dangerous Friend" , Christian Science Monitor and The Baltimore Sun, October 17, 2001. Also published in Polish, in Rzeczpospolita, no. 259, November 11, 2001 and in Estonian, in Kesknädal rahva politiikaleht, vol. 8, no. 275, November 27, 2001.

"Afghanistan's biggest problem - poverty - can be solved", Christian Science Monitor, October 16, 2001, p. 95.

"Ethnic Groups Must Share in the Pie", Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2001, p. M7.

"America's three Afghan challenges", The Christian Science Monitor, November 23, 2001, p. 11.

"Russia's Ominous Afghan Gambit", The Wall Street Journal Europe, December 11, 2001.

"War Against Terrorism and U.S. Bilateral Relations with the Nations of Central Asia", Testimony, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, December 13, 2001.

Foreword in Uzbekistan on a Historical Threshold, by Leonid Levitin, Granta Editions, 2001, pp. viii-xi.

With Marin Strmecki, "The All New Afghan Army", Financial Mirror, February 20-26, 2002, p.16.

With Marin Strmecki, "Time to Ditch the Northern Alliance, The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2002. (also in WSJ Europe, February 27, 2002)

"Central Asia's Sudden Prominence", The World & I, April 2002, pp. 58-63.

With Marin Strmecki, "Afghan Democracy and its First Missteps, The New York Times, June 14, 2002.

"The United States, Afghanistan, and Central Asia", NIASnytt (Nordic Newsletter of Asian Studies), no. 3, September 2002, pp. 9-11.

"Karzai's Legitimacy as a Leader", Saisphere 2002, pp. 13-15.

"Afghanistan: Free Trade and Regional Transformation", Asian Update, Spring 2003, pp. 11-19.

"A Sweet Sixteen: plenty of reasons to cheer the post-Taliban Afghanistan", National Review, vol. LV, no. 15, August 2003, pp.21-3.

"Thievery, Treachery, Treason.", National Review, vol. LV, no. 13, July 14, 2003, pp. 23-4.

"The Investment Climate in Central Asia and the Caucasus", in Russian-Eurasian Renaissance? U.S. Trade and Investment in Russia and Eurasia, Jan H. Kalicki and Eugene K. Lawson, eds., Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford Business Books, 2003, pp. 73-91.

"Globalization with a Russian Edge: Russian Avant-Gardists and Peasant Village Culture". In: Origins of the Russian Avant-Garde: celebrating the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg in collaboration with the Russian Avant-Garde Foundation, Palace Editions, 2003, pp. 57-63.