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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin
Professor of National Security Strategy
College of International and Security Studies

Mr. Alexander Garin was born in Leningrad, Russia. He has a degree in mathematics from Leningrad State University and has completed course work and a dissertation for Kandidat Philosophical Sciences at the Leningrad Academy of Sciences. Mr. Garin is a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at Munich University. He immigrated to Austria in 1978 and moved to Germany in 1979.

Mr. Garin originally joined the Marshall Center as a faculty member of the U.S. Army Russian Institute, the precursor of the Marshall Center's former Institute for Eurasian Studies. In addition to his work at the Marshall Center, from 1988 to 1989 Mr. Garin was an adjunct professor of strategy for the Department of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Prior to joining the Marshall Center Mr. Garin taught mathematics in Leningrad. His other positions in Leningrad included researcher in the Information Department of the Scientific-Technical Research Center and senior instructor in the Philosophical Department of the Academy of Sciences.

Publications

“Cultural Factor in National Security Strategy”. Pages 20- 33. In Aikakan Banak, Armenian Army, Nr 4 (50), 2006, Military – Scientific Journal of National Strategic Institute, Republic of Armenia. Pp.20-33. In Russian: «Культурный Фактор в Стратегии Национальной Безопасности» with summary in English.
“From experience of conscientious government in European countries and its significance for Kyrgyzstan”. Together with Omarov M.N. In Orientir, Analiticheskii bulleten. N1(5), 2004, International Institute of Strategic Studies at the President of Kyrgyz Republic. Pp. 5-16, In Russian: “Iz opyta dobrosovestnogo upravlenia v evropeiskih stranah I ego znachenie dlia Kirgizstana”.
“The Role of Rule of Law for Formation of conscientious government in European countries and its significance for Kyrgyzstan”. Together with Omarov M.N. In Orientir, Analiticheskii bulleten. N2(6), 2004, International Institute of Strategic Studies at the President of Kyrgyz Republic. Pp. 15-23. Rol prava v stanovlenii dobrosovestnogo upravlenia v evropeiskih stranah I ego znachenie dlia Kirgizstana.
“Cross Cultural Conflict and Cooperation: Promoting Progressive Change Through Culture”. In Russia and West: Dialogue of Cultures, 9th International Conference . Vypusk 10th. Moscow: Lomonosov State University, 2003, pp. 111-118. Originally published in Russian in Rossia i Zapad: Dialog Kultur, 9ja mzhdunarodnaja konferentsia, Vypusk 10, Moskva, Universitet imeni Lomonosova, 2003, str. 111 - 118.
"The Cultural Roots of the Western Democracy in Comparison with the Russian Development." In Russia and West: Dialogue of Cultures, 7th International Conference . Vypusk 8th, Vol. II. Moscow: Lomonosov State University, 2000, pp. 127-136. Originally published in Russian: "Kulturnye korni zapadnoi demokratii v sravnenii s razvitiem v Rossii", In Rossia i Zapad: Dialog Kultur, 7ja mzhdunarodnaja konferentsia, Vypusk 8, Tom II, Moskva, Universitet imeni Lomonosova, 2000, str. 127 - 136.
In conjunction with the International Institute of Strategic Studies.Opyt Evropy Kirgyzstanu. Kniga Dlia Sozidajutschih Gosudarstvo (The European Experience with Kyrghyzstan: A Book for Nation Builders). Prepared for the President of Kyrghyz Republic. Bishkek: Poliglot, 1997.

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