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Martha Brill Olcott

is a senior associate with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment. She specializes in the problems of transitions in Central Asia and the Caucasus. She has followed interethnic relations in Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union for more than 30 years and has traveled extensively in these countries and in South Asia.

Her book, Central Asia’s Second Chance, examines the economic and political development of this ethnically diverse and strategically vital region in the context of the changing security threats post 9/11. Olcott also codirects the Carnegie Moscow Center Project on Religion, Society, and Security in the former Soviet Union. She is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago.

Research areas: Asia

Publications

Central Asia: Living in Afghanistan’s shadow: Martha Brill Olcott 10 October 2009
This policy brief examines the economic, energy, resource and security issues surrounding the Central Asian republics’ relations with Afghanistan in the context of the escalating crisis in that country. more