Senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest. He was a U.S. State Department senior advisor during the George W. Bush and Trump administrations
Visiting Professor at the Global Centre for Asian and Regional Research at the University of Shizuoka, and Advisor for External Relations for Shizuoka Prefecture.
Director of the Information and Analysis Centre for Sociopolitical Processes in the Post-Soviet Space and Editor-in-Chief of the information and analysis website about Central Asia ia-centr.ru