Vladimir Socor

Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation

Vladimir Socor is a Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Foundation in Washington and its flagship publication, Eurasia Daily Monitor, where he writes a daily analytical article. An internationally recognized expert on the former Soviet-ruled countries in Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, he covers Russian and Western policies there, focusing on regional security issues, secessionist conflicts, energy policies, and NATO policies and programs. Mr. Socor is a frequent speaker at U.S. and European policy conferences and think-tank institutions as well as a regular guest lecturer at the NATO Defense College and at Harvard University’s National Security Program’s Black Sea Program. He is also a frequent contributor to edited volumes. Mr. Socor was previously an analyst with the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (1983-1994).  Vladimir Socor received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Bucharest, and a Master of Philosophy in East European History from Columbia University in 1977.  He worked as an analyst for the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in Munich (1983–1994) and the Jamestown Foundation in Washington D.C. (1995–2002), and then as a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Washington, D.C. (2002–2004).  Since 2000, he contributes a regular column to the European edition of The Wall Street Journal.