Dr. Gerard Janco, President of The Eurasia Center

Dr. Gerard J. Janco is the Founder and President of the Eurasia Center. Dr. Janco has been a leading force in creating new analytical approaches to understanding recent developments occurring within 21st Century Eurasia. His approach is to access, then understand, the dynamic interrelationships between European and Asian nations after collapse of the Soviet Union. Dr. Janco's models include the economic and military ties compelling European integration, disintegration of the socialist state, and the reemergence of Eastern Europe and Central Asia nations. Such change is coupled with rapid globalization including trade with Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Africa which is essential for understanding the new Eurasia.

A central feature of Dr. Janco's approach is identifying how the United States can develop lasting relations with these new nations. The new Eurasia encompasses the geo-eco-political landscape of Europe and Asia - regions rich in terms of their history, cultures, peoples, languages, and natural resources. Such dynamic interactions have lasted over many centuries. After the collapse of the Soviet empire, there is a greater and freer movement of peoples, ideas, and goods. Such move is facilitated by the Internet. Dr. Janco's extensive research documents that Eurasian and American policy makers, politicians, business leaders, and educators must understand each other while providing a realistic economic development framework within which to fully nurture these new developments. In addition, Dr. Janco has warned of a resurgence of Putin's regime and its new disastrous war with Ukraine and the dangerous direction Xi Jinping is leading China toward with his clampdown in Western China, Hong Kong and now seeking a war with Taiwan. Wars are a diversion for the masses to create an outside enemy, to hide a regime's failings and a vehicle to continue authoritarian rule. Their new multipolar world concept is a world of aggression and violence against free peoples. While other nations may be attracted to their propaganda, make no mistake, it is a road to world disaster.

Dr. Janco, as an expert in Eurasian affairs, founded The Eurasia Center in 1988 as The Center for Soviet-American Relations with Misha Knight, a Soviet dissident and author of "How to do Business with Russians." After the collapse of the Soviet Union the name was changed to The Center for American-Eurasian Studies and Relations. This was a watershed event making it the first organization in America to adopt the term "Eurasia". With broad acceptance of the term for this rapidly evolving region of the world the name was shortened to simply "The Eurasia Center". He created the well regarded Eurasia Report in 1990 as Publisher and Editor. The Eurasia Report has been newly renamed as "The Eurasia Journal", and it continues as a leading journal on Eurasian affairs. The America-Eurasia Center (The Eurasia Center) , distances itself from the kooky charlatan philosophy of Aleksandr Dugin - who has adopted many right-wing, Bolshevik, Nazi ideas to foment an anti-Western attitudes and philosophical delusions which the Putin regime has bought into to create 'history wars' within Eurasia. The real Eurasia Movement was started by a group of Russian intelligensia who escaped to Paris and ultimately Yale University to create the first Eurasia Movement which sought to restore Russia to greatness by taking the best values of the West and best values of the East after communism collapsed. The seeds of the second Eurasia Movement was started by The Eurasia Center, which was the first organization in America to use the term Eurasia in its name. Thereafter, other organizations emulated our vision, the Eurasia Foundation, Eurasia Group, etc. Finally, the Eurasia Union was created first as a free trade zone within Eurasia but finally as a counterweight to the expanding European Union.

Dr. Janco founded the Eurasian Business Coalition (EBC) in 1996. The EBC is an alliance of businesses from America and Eurasia to promote investments and two-way trade. He has been instrumental in organizing a number of Eurasian "Roundtables". These events led to The Eurasia Center becoming a prime sponsor of the annual World Russian Forum in Washington, D.C. since 2001.

Dr. Janco is a credentialed expert in international security and political affairs having earned a double Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He received his Masters Degree in National Security Studies at the George Washington University's School of Public and International Affairs in Washington, D.C. USA. He has worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the United States Congress, at the United States Institute of Peace, and for the Atlantic Council of the United States. He has lectured extensively at universities in America and also at some of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe including the Charles University in Prague, Jageillonian University in Cracow, Comenius University in Bratislava, and related universities in Russia. He has been instrumental in setting up American liaison offices in Prague and Moscow. Dr. Janco has been further energized to bring even greater numbers of programs and initiatives for greater progress to Eurasian and America.    President@eurasiacenter.org