Uri Ra’anan was on the faculty of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for over two decades, holding the titles of Professor of International Politics and Director of the International Security Studies Program.
At Boston University, he served as director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, teaching there from 1988 until his retirement in 2009.[3]
Books and other writingsedit
He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited over two dozen books and contributed to 19 others. They include:
The USSR arms the third world; case studies in Soviet foreign policy. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1969. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 823 libraries [4]
Arms transfers to the third world: the military buildup in less industrial countries. (ed. with RL Pfaltzgraff, G Kemp) - Westview Press, 1978
Intelligence policy and national security. (ed. with RL Pfaltzgraff, U Ra'anan, W Milberg) - London: Macmillan, 1981
Projection of power: perspectives, perceptions, and problems. (ed. with RL Pfaltzgraff, G Kemp) - Archon Books, 1982
International security dimensions of space. (ed. with R Pfaltzgraff) - Archon Books, 1984
Security commitments and capabilities : elements of an American global strategy (ed. with R Pfaltzgraff) - Archon Books, 1985
Hydra of Carnage: The International Linkages of Terrorism and Other Low-intensity Operations: the Witnesses Speak (ed with RH Shultz, R Pfaltzgraff Jr, E Halperin) Lexington Books, 1986.
Gorbachev's USSR: a system in crisis (ed. with Igor Lukes) : Macmillan, 1990.
The Soviet empire: the challenge of national and democratic movements (ed.): Macmillan, 1990.
Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union (ed. with Igor Lukes) Lexington Books, 1990.
State and nation in multi-ethnic societies: The breakup of multinational states. (ed.) : Manchester University Press, 1991
German translation: Staat und Nation in multi-ethnischen Gesellschaften.Passagen Verlag, 1991
Russian Pluralism – Now Irreversible? (ed. with Keith Armes; Kate Martin) St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Russia – a return to imperialism? (ed. with Keith Armes; Kate Martin) St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Flawed succession: Russia's power transfer crises ( ed. ) Lexington Books, 2006
He has also published extensively in both scholarly and general periodicals, including the Slavic Review, Strategic Review, Global Affairs, Soviet Analyst, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Herald.[3]
In an August review for Commentary of Hydra of Carnage, a collection of contributions to a 1985 Tufts conference by Ra'anan and others, Angelo Codevilla wrote that the essays “inadvertently make it clear that government lacks the intellectual and moral tools” to meet the challenge of terrorism.[6]