Neil Melvin
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Neil Melvin is a researcher and policy practitioner in contemporary forms of conflict and the current Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme.[1] He has published on issues of conflict, with a particular focus on ethno-religious issues in the former Soviet Union and in Asia. In recent years[when?] he has broadened his research to consider the impact of resources on conflict, notably the issue of energy and conflict.
Professional life[edit]
Prior to joining SIPRI, Melvin held Senior Adviser positions in the Energy Charter Secretariat (2008–2010) and for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s High Commissioner on National Minorities (2001–2005).[citation needed] He served as a Reader in International Conflict Analysis at the Brussels School of International Studies between 2008 and 2010,[2] and worked at several leading policy institutes in Europe, including the Center for European Policy Studies.[3][4]
Education[edit]
Melvin received his Ph.D in Politics from St. Antony's College, Oxford University, in 1992, and subsequently served as post-doctoral fellow at the Russian Research Center of Harvard University.
Selected works[edit]
Publications[edit]
- Engaging Central Asia: The European Union's New Strategy in the Heart of Eurasia (2008)
- Conflict in Southern Thailand: Islamism, Violence and the State in the Patani Insurgency, SIPRI
Policy Paper No. 20 (September 2007).
- Building Stability in the North Caucasus: The way forward for Russia and the European Union, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 16 (April 2007).
- Soviet Power and the Countryside: Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003).
- Guest Editor of a Special Edition of Helsinki Monitor devoted to Central Asia (November 2003).
- Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road (London: Routledge, 2000).
- Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union (Boulder, Col.: Westview, 1998), editor and chapter contributor "Russians: Diaspora and the End of Empire".
- Regional Foreign Policies in the Russian Federation (London: Chatham House, 1995).
- Russians Beyond Russia: The Politics of National Identity (London: Pinter, 1995).
- Forging the New Russian Nation: Russian Foreign Policy and the Russian-speaking Communities of the Former USSR, Chatham House Discussion Paper, no. 50 (1994).
References[edit]
- ^ "Dr Neil John Melvin — www.sipri.org". Sipri.org. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
- ^ "Dr Neil Melvin - Brussels School of International Studies - University of Kent". Kent.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
- ^ "Melvin, Neil". FRIDE. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
- ^ "Neil J. Melvin | The Centre for European Policy Studies". Ceps.eu. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
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