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Robert V. Barylski is an expert on civil-military relations in Russia, political and economic reconstruction in the former Soviet Union, and Russian policy towards states and peoples of Islamic heritage. His work is published in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, The Middle East Journal, The Central Asia Monitor, and The Armed Forces & Society. He is the author of The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, a major work on the subject, and of chapters in various edited works on post-Soviet domestic and foreign policy.

Dr. Barylski joined USF in February 1979 and served as USF's Sarasota Campus dean for ten years, a decade during which the new campus library, Sudakoff center, and other facilities were built. Since 1980 he has been Associate Professor in USF's department of Government and International Relations. He has lectured in Baku, Madrid, Moscow, Ufa, Israel, and the Persian Gulf on military aspects of political change and competition for wealth and power in new, oil-producing states. He made occasional expert contributions to the Voice of America for broadcast to the greater Caspian region and participated in US policy symposia at the US Central Command.

Dr. Barylski earned his undergraduate degree form Brown University in political science in 1965 and his graduate degrees in Russian area studies and political science at Harvard University in 1972. He is married and the father two grown children, Alexander and Natasha. His wife, Irene, teaches foreign languages at the Pine View School in the Sarasota school system.

Telephone: (941) 359-4341 FAX: (941) 359-4356 E-MAIL: barylski@usf.sar.edu

Mailing Address: Dr. R. V. Barylski, USF/Sarasota SMC C246, 8350 Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida, USA 34243-2049

1. Major Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1992a "The Soviet Military Before and After the August Coup." The Armed Forces & Society. 19 (1): 27-45.

2. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V. 1992b. "Perestroika and Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China." pp. 127-211 in Eberhard Sandschneider and Jurgen Kuhlmann ed., The Armed Forces in the USSR and the PRC. FORUM International. 14. Munich.

3. Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1992c. "Central Asia and the Post-Soviet Military System in the Formative Year: 1992." Central Asia Monitor. 1(6): 18-29.

4. Published Conference Proceedings: Barylski, Robert V. 1993a. "The Islamic Crescent and the Central Eurasian International System." pp. 73-100, Proceedings of the Southwest Asia Symposium, 20-21 May 1993. United States Central Command, General Joseph P. Hoar USMC, CINC.

5. Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1993b. "The Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Near-Abroad Syndrome." Central Asia Monitor. 2(5): 31-37 and 2(6): 21-28.

6. Major Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1994a "The Russian Federation and Eurasia's Islamic Crescent." Europe-Asia Studies. 46 (3): 389-416. Lead article in the major journal in the field.

7. Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1994b. "The Russian Federation's Post-Communist Foreign Policy." The Southeastern Political Review. 22 (2): 287-323.

8. Major Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1995a. "Russia, the West, and the Caspian Energy Hub," The Middle East Journal. 49(2) Spring 1995, pp. 217-232. The lead article in the major journal in the field.

9. Journal Article: Barylski, Robert V. 1995b. "The Caspian Oil Regime: Military Dimensions;" Caspian Crossroads, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 7-10.

10. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V. 1996. "Kazakhstan: Military Dimensions of State Formation Over Central Asia's Civilizational Fault Lines," Chapter 8, pp. 123-151, in Constantine P. Danopoulos and Daniel G. Zirker ed., Civil-Military Relations in the Soviet and Yugoslav Successor States; Westview Press Inc.; 1996.

11. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V. 1997. "Russian Domestic Politics, Military Power, and the Eurasian State System;" pp. 122-158 in Hafeez Malik ed., Roles of the United States, Russia, and China in the New World Order; Macmillan in London and St. Martin's Press in New York, 1997.

12. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Gulf Security," Chapter 6, pp. 91-118, in David Long and Christian Koch ed., Gulf Security in the 21st Century; I. B. Tauris: London and New York, 1997. The chapter was presented at the ECSSR's January 1996 conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

13.Major Book Barylski, Robert V., The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. 520 pages. Transaction Books: New Brunswick and London, 1998.

14. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V., "Etno-natsional'nye faktory vo vnutrennei i vneshnei politike: Amerikanskii opyt (Ethno-National Factors in Domestic and Foreign Policy: The American Experience);" pp. 59-78 in A. B. Iunusova ed., Demokratiia i natsional'nye dvizheniia v sovremennom mire (Democracy and National Movements in the Modern World); Ufa, "Gilem," 1999. In Russian.

15. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V., "The Russian Case: Elite Self-Emancipation;" Chapter 8 in Marco Rimanelli ed., Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single Party Dominant Polities; New York: St. Martins Press, 2000.

16. Book Chapter: Barylski, Robert V. "National Self-Determination, Russian State Unity and the Chechen Conflict;" pp. 82-112 in Hafeez Malik ed., Russian-American Relations: Islamic and Turkic Dimensions; Macmillan and St. Martins Press Inc.: London and New York, 2000.

 
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