Cory Welt
Associate Director, Associate Research
Professor
Institute
for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
The
Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
1957 E Street NW, Suite 412
202-994-8362
@cory_welt
BIO
Cory Welt is
Associate Director and Associate Research Professor of International Affairs at
the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott
School. At IERES, he co-directs the Program on New Approaches to Research and
Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) and teaches courses on post-Soviet
Eurasian politics and security. Dr. Welt is a specialist on the Caucasus and
U.S. policy toward Russia and Eurasia. He was also an Adjunct Fellow at the
Center for American Progress from 2012-2014. Dr. Welt is the author of several
articles and book chapters on post-Soviet conflict resolution, transborder security, and political change, including
for Europe-Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya,
The Nonproliferation Review, The Making of Modern Georgia,
1918-2012 (Jones, ed., Routledge), Democracy and
Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (Bunce,
McFaul, Stoner-Weiss, eds., Cambridge University Press) and America and
the World in the Age of Terror (Benjamin, ed., CSIS Press). He has
published numerous commentaries on post-Soviet politics and security and U.S.
foreign policy, including for the Center for American Progress, Foreign
Policy, The National Interest, The Moscow Times, Russia in
Global Affairs, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He
was previously associate director (2007-2009) and director (2009) of the
Eurasian Strategy Project at Georgetown University and deputy director and
fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) (2003-2007). He received his PhD in political
science from MIT (2004) and his BA and MA from Stanford University (1995).
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles, Chapters,
and Book Reviews
Explaining Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus:
Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, Ph.D. Thesis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004) (320 pages)
Journal Articles, Chapters, and Book Reviews
2015
Book Review: Arsθne Saparov, From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus,
The Russian Review 74, no. 4 (October
2015): 717-719.
Making
Sense of Russian Foreign Policy: Guest Editors Introduction (with Samuel
Charap), Problems of Post-Communism
62, no. 2 (April 2015): 67-70. [Republished in abbreviated form as Policy
Motifs and Unintended Consequences, Russia
in Global Affairs, June 26, 2015.]
2014
A Fateful Moment?: Ethnic Autonomy and
Revolutionary Violence in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921), in Stephen F. Jones, ed., The
Making of Modern Georgia, 1918-2012: The First Georgian Republic and its
Successors (Routledge,
2014), 205-231.
2013
Turkey-Armenian Normalisation
and the Karabakh Conflict, Perceptions:
Journal of International Affairs 18, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 207-221 [Revised
and expanded version of To Link Or Not To Link? Turkey-Armenia
Normalization and the Karabakh Conflict, Caucasus
International 2, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 53-62]
2011
A More Proactive
U.S. Approach to the Georgia Conflicts (with Samuel
Charap), Center for American Progress, February 2011 (69 pages)
2010
How
Strategic is the US-Georgia Strategic Partnership? Working Paper, Series on Limited
Sovereignty and Soft Borders in Southeastern Europe and the Former Soviet
States: The Challenges and Political Consequences of Future Changes in Legal
Status, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, March 2010 (13 pages)
The Thawing of a Frozen Conflict: The Internal
Security Dilemma and the 2004 Prelude to the Russo-Georgian War, Europe-Asia Studies (January 2010): 63-97
Georgia's
Rose Revolution: From Regime Weakness to Regime Collapse, in Valerie Bunce, Michael A. McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss,
eds., Democracy and Authoritarianism in the
Post-Communist World (Cambridge University Press,
2010), 155-188
2009
Book
Review: Vicken Cheterian, War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's
Troubled Frontier, Central Asian
Survey 28, no. 4 (December 2009): 433-434.
Still
Staging Democracy: Contestation and Conciliation in Postwar Georgia, Demokratizatsiya:
The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 17, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 196-226
2006
Book
Review: Eric A. Miller, To Balance or Not
To Balance: Alignment Theory and the Commonwealth of Independent States,
Comparative Strategy 25, no. 3
(2006): 253-255.
2005
Political Change and Border Security Reform in
Eurasia: The Case of Georgia,
The Nonproliferation Review 12, no. 3 (November 2005),
503-537
Balancing
the Balancer: Russia, the U.S., and Conflict Resolution in Georgia, Global Dialogue 7, no. 3-4
(Summer/Autumn 2005), 22-36
Shaking
Up the System: Georgia and the War on Terror, in America
and the World in the Age of Terror: A New Landscape in International Relations,
ed. Daniel Benjamin (Washington, DC: CSIS Press, 2005), 28-52
2004
Explaining Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus:
Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, Ph.D. Thesis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004) (320 pages)
1997
Armenias
New Autocrats, (with Ian Bremmer)
Journal of Democracy 8, no. 3
(July 1997), 77-91
A
Break With the Past: State and Economy in Post-Communist Armenia,
(with Ian Bremmer) Helsinki Monitor 8, no. 1 (1997), 38-47
1996
The
Trouble with Democracy in Kazakhstan, (with Ian Bremmer) Central
Asian Survey 15, no. 2 (June 1996), 179-99
1995
Kazakhstans Quandary, (with Ian Bremmer) Journal of Democracy 6, no. 3 (July 1995), 139-54
2015
The
Curious Case of Rustavi-2: Protecting Media Freedom and the Rule of Law in
Georgia, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 400, George Washington University,
November 2015 [Republished in edited form as The
Curious Case of Georgias Rustavi-2, openDemocracy,
December 2, 2015].
Policy
Motifs and Unintended Consequences (with Samuel Charap), Russia in Global Affairs, June 26, 2015.
2014
Trouble in
Tbilisi, Foreign Policy,
November 6, 2014
Ukraines
Road to Normalcy, Center for American Progress, May 29, 2014
Achieving
Unity in Ukraine, Center for American Progress, April 18, 2014
Responding
to Russias Illegal Military Incursion in Ukraine (with Rudy deLeon), Center for American Progress, March 3, 2014
Choosing
an Interim Government (in Russian), Russia
in Global Affairs, February 26, 2014
An
Opportunity to Resolve the Escalating Crisis in Ukraine, Center for
American Progress, February 21, 2014
2013
Ukraines
Euromaidan: Now Comes the Hard Part, Center for American Progress,
December 23, 2013
What
the Snowden Affair Says About U.S.-Russian Relations, Center for American
Progress, July 17, 2013
The
Boston Marathon Attack, the North Caucasus, and U.S.-Russian Relations,
Center for American Progress, April 22, 2013
Don't
Give Up on the U.S.-Russian Reset (with Ivan Kurilla), The National Interest, March 29, 2013
2012
Can
Georgia Become A Multiparty Democracy? Caucasus
Analytical Digest No. 43 (October 15, 2012)
5
Things You Need to Know About Georgian Parliamentary Elections, Center for
American Progress, Center for American Progress, September 27, 2012
Statement, Briefing on Human
Rights in Georgia, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, September 11, 2012
Statement, Briefing on Democratization
in the Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, U.S. Helsinki
Commission, May 23, 2012.
Russia,
Trade, and Human Rights: Thinking Through U.S. Policies, Center for
American Progress, April 30, 2012
Russia and
Georgia an interrupted dialogue, Valdai Discussion Club, April 16, 2012
Can
the U.S.-Russia Reset Survive Russias Presidential Election? Center for
American Progress, March 1, 2012
Dont
Shy Away from Progress on the Russia-Georgia Conflict, Center for American Progress, February 6, 2012
2011
Easing
the Crossing: More Permits, Crossing Points and Clearer Rules Are Needed
(with Samuel Charap), Caucasus Security
Insight no. 3, International Institute for Strategic Studies, February 2011
2010
How to Resolve the Georgia Conflict
(with Samuel Charap), The Moscow Times, December 16, 2010
Georgias
Constitutional Reform, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst 12, no. 21
(November 10, 2010)
A New
Approach to the Russia-Georgia Conflict (with Samuel Charap), Center for American Progress, October 18,
2010
2009
After the EU War Report: Can There Be a
Reset in Russian-Georgian Relations? Russian Analytical Digest
No. 68, November 23, 2009
2008
Can Georgia Get Back on the NATO Track? PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 8,
Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, March 2008
2007
Russia and Georgia: The Message Behind the Missile? Center for Strategic & International Studies, August 27,
2007
2006
Georgia:
A Needless Challenge, Kommersant
(Moscow), October 3, 2006
Hoping on Kazakhstan: U.S. Engagement in
Central Asia,
Center for Strategic & International Studies, September 27, 2006
A New Eurasia?: The
Future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Center for Strategic &
International Studies, June 15, 2006
Azerbaijan and U.S. Foreign Policy, Center for Strategic & International
Studies, April 26, 2006
Its
the Process that Counts, The Moscow Times, February 13, 2006
Energy
Insecurity in Georgia,
Center for Strategic & International Studies, January 24, 2006
2005
Statement, Briefing on U.S. Strategic Dilemmas
in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, U.S. Commission on International Religious
Freedom and CSIS, July 27, 2005
Gilded
Lily Pad (with David
Hoffman), The American Prospect Online
(www.prospect.org), June 20, 2005
Uzbekistan: The Risks and Responsibilities of
Democracy Promotion,
PONARS Policy Memo No. 365, Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS), June 2005
Georgias Unenviable Challenge, The Messenger (Tbilisi), March 25, 2005
Georgia: Causes of the Rose Revolution and
Lessons for Democracy Assistance (Washington, DC: USAID/Management Systems International, March
2005)
Realism, Russia, and Conflict Resolution, PONARS Policy Memo No. 348, CSIS,
January 2005
2004
A
New Vision for Armenia?
Eurasianet.org (www.eurasianet.org) June 2004
Armenias
Tragedy, Center for
Strategic & International Studies, April 2004
A Georgian-Russian Pipeline: For Peace or
Profit? (with George Anjaparidze),
Eurasianet.org, March 2004
Georgia: Consolidating the Revolution, Center for Strategic &
International Studies, April 2004
Georgia
Under the New Regime, Center for Strategic & International Studies, January 2004
2003
Georgias Revolution: Laudable
Accomplishment, Real Challenge, Center for Strategic & International Studies, November 2003
A Way Out? No Easy Answer to Georgias
Election Crisis,
Center for Strategic & International Studies, November 2003
Georgia: A Post-election Crossroads, Center for Strategic &
International Studies, November 2003
2000
Opinion:
Death of a Rebel, Transitions On-Line, July 2000
1999
1999 Country Report:
GeorgiaA Return to Eurasia? Transitions
On-Line, May 2000
The
United States, the South Caucasus, and Euro-Atlantic Integration, George
Washington University, July 2015 (anticipated book chapter)
Have We
Reached the Finish Line? The Future of U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control, George Washington
University, January 2015 (working paper)
In the Shadow
of Revolution: A Decade of Authoritarian Hardening in Azerbaijan, George Washington
University, July 2014 (anticipated book chapter)