Peter Pavilionis

Peter Pavilionis is an editor in CNA’s Operational and Tactics Analysis division. Before joining CNA, Pavilionis was a development editor at the United States Institute of Peace and at American Psychological Association Books in Washington, DC. Pavilionis has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in international law and organization and Soviet studies; he also has an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. His current research interests are in energy and environmental security, Central Asia and the Caucasus, international organization, comparative democratization, and terrorism. His published work includes (coauthor) “The Great Game: Pipeline Politics in Central Asia,” Harvard International Review (Winter 1996–97), and (coauthor) “Resource Competition in the New International Order,” in Imbalance of Power: U.S. Hegemony and International Order, ed. I. William Zartman (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009).