• Conference: "Social Science Theory and Nuclear Proliferation," Security Studies and the Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, February, 1993.
    • Discussant: "Alternatives to Realism."


  • Workshop: "Reconceptualizing Regional Relations," Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict, Laguna Beach, CA, February 1993.
    • Short Paper: "On the Relevance of the Study of Regions."


  • Convention: International Studies Association, Acapulco, MX, March 1993.
    • Panel: "Comparative Defense Policy: Alternative Theoretical Frameworks."
    • Paper: "The Changing International Security Environment and Future Civil-Military Relations in Russia."


  • Workshop: "Defense and Arms Control Policies in the Russian Federation: Developments and Prospects," Ford Foundation Project at the University of Birmingham on Soviet Defense and Conventional Arms Control Policies: 1985-2000, Seillans, FR, April 1993.
    • Paper: "The New International Security Environment and Changing Civil-Military Relations in Gorbachev's Soviet Union and Yeltsin's Russia." 


  • Seminar: "East and Central European Security and the Role of Institutions," Atlantic Council of the United States Young Leaders Seminar, Bruges, Belgium, May 1993.


  • Conference: "Civil-Military Relations and Nuclear Weapons," Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, June 1993.  Commentator.

1993 Conferences, Seminars and Public Talks

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  • Convention: American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1993.
    • Panel: "System, States, and Soldiers: Linking Civil-Military Relations to the International System."
    • Paper: "The Military-Technical Revolution and Changing Soviet Civil-Military Relations."


  • Academic Advisory Meeting: The Interamerican Dialogue, Washington DC, September 1993.
    • Presentation: "Democratic Stability and Civil-Military Relations."


  • Conference: "Global Change and Hemispheric Security," Olin Institute, Harvard University and FUNDAYACUCHO, Caracas, Venezuela, November 1993.
    • Principal Organizer and Presentation: "Why Latin America Will Miss the Cold War."


  • Seminar: "National Security Group," Olin Institute, Harvard University, November 1993.
    • Paper: "War and State Formation; Peace and State Deformation: The End of the Cold War and the Deconstruction of the Modern Nation-State?"


  • Workshop: "Defence and Foreign Policy Issues in the Russian Federation," Oxford University, UK, December 1993. Coorganizer.
    • Paper: "What is the Price for Russian Military Support of President Yeltsin?"


  • Roundtable Discussion: "Security Issues in the Former Soviet Union," Kings College, London, UK, December 1993.
    • Presentation: "Russian Civil-Military Relations."