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Dr. Natalie Hassman
Professor of Eurasian Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Dr. Natalie Hassman has lectured on Eurasian area studies and security policy at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies since the center’s initial courses in 1994, first as a guest lecturer and then, starting in 2004, as a faculty member.

From 1981 to 1996 she was a professor of Russian/Soviet defense studies at the U.S. Army Russian Institute. She then became part of the faculty of the program succeeding USARI, the U.S. Army Eurasian Foreign Area Officer Program, located in Garmisch, Germany alongside the Marshall Center.

Dr. Hassman was a consultant and researcher for projects on Russian-Soviet security policy conducted by the Office for Technology Assessment, the U.S. Congress, the Rand Corporation, the French Ministry of Defense, the Hanns-Seidel Stiftung (Munich) and Jane’s Intelligence Group (London) from 1985 to 1998. From 1986 to 1989 she was a research fellow for the Rand/UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior and with the Foreign Military Studies Office, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. She has been a researcher and broadcaster for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, a researcher and writer for the BBC, as well as a freelance writer. After emigrating from the Soviet Union to Israel in the 1970s, she worked at the Labor Party Headquarers and at the Amnesty International Office in Tel Aviv, and was involved in peace and reconciliation projects between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Natalie Hassman holds advanced degrees from Moscow, Tel Aviv and Georgetown universities. Her articles have been published in Problems of Communism, Soviet Studies, RUSI-Brassey Defence Yearbook, Parameters, Military Review, New Times (Moscow) and Jerusalem Post. Her current area of research is transnational religious extremism and countering ideological support for terrorism.

Publications

“The Challenges of Countering Extremist Ideologies: Light At the End of the Tunnel." In the conference report from the International Seminar on Countering Terrorist Ideologies at the Center for International Cooperation, Moscow University, August 2008. To be published by Moscow University December 2008.
“Peace, Conflict of War Studies for the GWOT Age,” in Konstantin K. Khudoley (ed.) New Security Challenges as Challenges to Peace Research. St.Petersburg Peace Research Series, St. Petersburg University Press, 2004.
Baseball, Chess and Gambling: Some Problems of Adapting US National Security Strategy to East European and Israeli Strategic Cultures. Russian State Humanitarian University Conference Series, 2003.
“A Dangerous Similarity,” New Times, Moscow, English edition, July 2006.
A Military Coup in Russia: Prospects and Constraints. Jane’s Intelligence Review, November 1995.

Last updated: October 25, 2008