Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University
Encina Hall
616 Serra Street, C137
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

cblacker@stanford.edu
(650) 725-5368 (voice)
(650) 723-3435 (fax)

Expertise
Soviet/Russian foreign policy and security policy; U.S. foreign policy and security policy; national and international security relations

Coit Blacker is the director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; the Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education; an FSI Stanford senior fellow; and a professor of political science, by courtesy.

During the first Clinton administration, Professor Blacker served as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).

From 1998 to 2003, he served as co-director of the Aspen Institute's U.S.-Russia Dialogue, which twice each year brings together prominent U.S. and Russian specialists on foreign and defense policy for discussion and review of critical issues in U.S.-Russian relations. He was a study group member of the U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (The Hart-Rudman Commission) throughout the Commission's tenure.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in Washington, DC. Currently, he is also co-chair, with Professor Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, of the Faculty Steering Committee of the International Initiative.