Mariya Y. Omelicheva is a Professor of Strategy at National War College. She previously worked as a Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. Dr. Omelicheva's research and teaching interests include international and Eurasian security, counterterrorism and human rights, democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory, Russia's foreign and security policy, and terrorism/crime nexus. She has published on these subjects in Terrorism and Political Violence ,Europe-Asia Studies, International Journal of Human Rights, Central Asia Survey, Cambridge Review of International Relations, and other journals. She is the author of Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia (2011), which received an Outstanding Academic Title award by Choice.