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Mark A. Baskin is a Senior Associate for Academic Affairs at the Center for International Development and Research Professor at the Political Science Department of the University at Albany. He works on projects aimed at democratization and development and teaches courses in comparative and international politics. In addition, he oversees CID’s academic programs, such as the International Speakers’ Program and Roundtables, CID’s Internship Program, CID Fellowships Abroad, and the Arthur J. Sist Fellowship. Dr. Baskin is an experienced field practitioner in conflict and post-conflict administration, peace operations, rule of law, legislative strengthening, and local government and administration. He has worked for over three decades in the Eurasia region and most recently has worked in the Mideast and Asia. Dr. Baskin spent nearly a decade as a Civil Affairs Officer and Political Officer working for United Nations peacekeeping operations in the Balkans in the field and at mission headquarters in Zagreb, Vukovar, and Sarajevo. Among his many posts were Chief Reporting Officer of the UN Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997-1999), Deputy Regional Administrator in Prizren, Kosovo, and as Prizren’s Municipal Administrator from 1999 to 2000. Dr. Baskin’s research has focused on ethnicity and nationalism in the Balkans, economic and political transitions in the Balkans, and the establishment of rule of law, governance and democratization in conflict zones. Dr. Baskin was the Director of Research at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Canada, and has taught at universities in Michigan, North Carolina and New York. He has consulted for the United Nations, the World Bank, the Government of Canada, USAID, IDEA, and others. He has published in scholarly journals and the popular press and is frequently invited to give public presentations. Dr. Baskin holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan and has held numerous fellowships for study and research abroad. In 2002-2003, he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He fluently speaks Serbo-Croatian and Russian.
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