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Short Biography of Alan F. Fogelquist

Alan F. Fogelquist received a Masters degree in social work with a specialization in community organization and development at the University of Puerto Rico in 1974, a M.A. in history at UCLA in 1981, and a PH. D. in modern history at UCLA 1990.

Since receiving his PH. D., he has worked as an independent researcher and analyst specializing in post Cold War conflicts, terrorism, and insurgencies. He has a broad and detailed historical knowledge of important events of the Cold War and Post Cold War periods with specialized knowledge of former Yugoslavia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and post Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus. Some of his early experience and training was related to Latin America and he has continued to monitor important developments in the region, such as the financial crises of the 1990s in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and the ongoing Colombian insurgency and Colombian drug cartels. He has a near native knowledge of Spanish and Serbo-Croatian a good mastery of written and spoken Persian and Dari and Portuguese plus a good solid working knowledge for research purposes of Russian, Bulgarian, French and Italian. He is also able to translate Arabic materials with help of a dictionary.

During his youth and early adulthood, he lived for more than a decade in Paraguay, Spain, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, In Colombia he taught social sciences at the Universidad Industrial de Santander and the Universidad Nacional, Medellin campus, and worked as a community organizer and psychiatric social worker in Puerto Rico and New York City. He lived in Sarajevo from 1981 to 1984. In New York City he worked three years in the field of drug rehabilitation as a psychiatric social worker.

From 1991 to 1994, Alan Fogelquist was a post-doctoral scholar in Modern Balkan and Comparative History at the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA. From June 1993 through December 1996, he worked as a consultant on Balkan and Eurasian problems for Dr. Albert Wohlstetter and the Penheuristics Institute in Los Angeles California. In January 1996 he initiated the Eurasia Research Center project, which has operated exclusively as a free non-commercial educational service dedicated to research and geopolitical analysis. In 2002, he worked as an analyst and researcher at the International Monitor Institute at Los Angeles, California, where he participated in the Institute’s Middle East and Iraq projects.

Alan Fogelquist is the founder and Director of research for the Eurasia Research Center project centered in Pacific Palisades California.

Over the years, Alan Fogelquist has spoken at numerous public forums on the current situation in the Balkans and post-Soviet Eurasia and has presented papers or in depth briefings at conferences at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D. C., the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, The University of Southern Colorado, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey. He has worked as a consultant on War Crimes for Helsinki Watch and provided consultation to members of the United States Senate and United States Congress, the Bosnian and Afghan Missions to the United Nations, and the Democratic Party of Tajikistan. Alan Fogelquist is author of the monograph Handbook of Facts on the Break-up of Yugoslavia, International Policy and the War in Bosnia Hercegovina (Ann Arbor, Michigan: AEIOU Publishing, 1993) as well as several articles for scholarly publications and newspapers. He is currently writing a comparative study of post Cold War conflicts, and global geopolitics. Dr. Fogelquist has visited Turkey, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosova, Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro/Yugoslavia on various occasions.

Interests

World affairs, world music, travel, sight seeing, walking and hiking.

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