OK is the creator and editor in chief of, and frequent contributor to N&C - Nature & Cultures, the American University of Paris geographic magazine for global explorers.
OK was also
- publisher, assistant éditor, columnist, ofThe Kodiak Fisherman - regional monthly 36-page magazine (broadsheet format) ; circulation : 4000, 40% advertisement
- co-editor, Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate: London, 2012
- editor of No. 7 (Arctic) of the Geostrategic Maritime Review (defined themes, organized call for papers and peer review)
- Assistant editor, Gardner, Hall, (ed.), Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.
- publisher, assistant éditor, columnist, ofThe Kodiak Fisherman - regional monthly 36-page magazine (broadsheet format) ; circulation : 4000, 40% advertisement
- co-editor, Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate: London, 2012
- editor of No. 7 (Arctic) of the Geostrategic Maritime Review (defined themes, organized call for papers and peer review)
- Assistant editor, Gardner, Hall, (ed.), Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.
Books :
La Colonization russe en Amérique du Nord: 18 - 19 ème siècles (Russian Colonization in North-America, 18th-19th Centuries) Paris, University of Panthéon- Sorbonne, 1985, xxxvi + 585 pages + Illus. + Maps. (Private publication in 50 copies. New revised and augmented edition in English in preparation for release no later than 2024).
Beginning Russian. Barron's, N.Y., 1996; also published in Finnish, Spanish and 4 French editions—3rd edition Initiation: russe—on Amazon.fr bestselling list for several months in 2003-2004, N°6 of all books on tape).
Orthodox Christians: a Geopolitical Survey. (In preparation for release no later than 2024).
Ukraine et Russie. (In preparation for release no later than 2024).
Articles or book chapters in peer-reviewed publications :
La Colonization russe en Amérique du Nord: 18 - 19 ème siècles (Russian Colonization in North-America, 18th-19th Centuries) Paris, University of Panthéon- Sorbonne, 1985, xxxvi + 585 pages + Illus. + Maps. (Private publication in 50 copies. New revised and augmented edition in English in preparation for release no later than 2024).
Beginning Russian. Barron's, N.Y., 1996; also published in Finnish, Spanish and 4 French editions—3rd edition Initiation: russe—on Amazon.fr bestselling list for several months in 2003-2004, N°6 of all books on tape).
Orthodox Christians: a Geopolitical Survey. (In preparation for release no later than 2024).
Ukraine et Russie. (In preparation for release no later than 2024).
Articles or book chapters in peer-reviewed publications :
- "The Geopolitics of the Orthodox Church in the Balkans". In: Gardner, Hall. (ed.). Geopolitical Turmoil in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. London: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp 133–158.
- “Pour une étude comparative des pèlerinages sur les tombes de Saint Germain d’Alaska et de Saint Séraphim de Sarov : commentaires sur des notes de terrain. ", in – Crăciun, Adrian Florentin, Lossky, André & Pott, Thomas (éds.), Semaine d’Études Liturgiques, No. 66, (Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia 104 ; Université de Fribourg), Aschendorff Verlag : Münster, 2020, pp. 217-242
- "Meyendorff en tant qu’historien", in - Sekulovsky, Goran, ed., L’héritage du Père Jean Meyendorff : érudit et homme d’Église, 1926-1992. Paris : Editions du Cerf (publication postponed)
- "L’Évêché de Genève et d’Europe occidentale", in - Allouche-Benayoun, Joëlle, Hermon-Belot, Rita, Obadia, Lionel & Zwilling, Anne-Laure, eds., Atlas des groupes religieux minoritaires en France, Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2018, pp. 281-290
- "A life in the service of France, of the Pacific, and of the Arctic and Antarctica: Michel Rocard (1930-2016), Senator, Prime Minister of France, Ambassador of France for International Negotiations on Polar Regions ", The Geostrategic Maritime Review, No. 7, November 2016, pp. 167-187.
- "Arctic Geopolitics as a Major Public Issue: the Reasons Behind a Lack of Awareness", The Geostrategic Maritime Review, No. 7, November 2016, pp. 25-63.
- “L’affaire des Mistral russes”, in – Sur, serge, ed., Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales, Paris: Université Panthéon-Assas, Centre Thucydide, 2016, pp. 609-620.
- "Russia and the Geopolitics of the Mediterranean", The Geo-Maritime strategic Review, N° 4, Spring/Summer 2015, pp. 40-72
- "Les enjeux énergétiques de la crise ukrainienne", Confrontations Europe, No. 106, Juillet-Septembre 2014, pp. 20-21
- “Kodiak: île américaine, île russe », in Catherine Géry & Dominique Samson, eds., Mélanges en l’honneur d’Anne-Victoire Charrin, Slovo, Vol. 39-40, 2012 (Paris: Institut des Langues Orientales), pp. 307-328.
- « Pour le monde mais pas de ce monde: un homme simple dans un monde compliqué », in-La joie du Royaume, Actes du colloque International l'héritage du père Alexandre Schmemann (Paris 11-14 décembre 2008), André Lossky, Cyrille Sollogoub & Daniel Struve, eds., Paris: YMCA Press, 2012, pp. 34-38
- « Gwenn A. Miller: Kodiak Kreol », Cahiers du monde russe [En ligne], 51/4 | 2010
- « General Introduction. Polemology » (co-authored with Hall Gardner), in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 1-31
- “Age of Progress or ‘Age of Extremes’? The Escalation of Warfare in Modern Times and the Nature of its Mutation”, in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 99-130
- « Time of Troubles: War in an Age of Planetary Upheaval, From the End of the Middle Ages to 1648 » in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 229-250
- « Totalitarian Times—Total War, Global War: the Roots of World War II and the Nature of the Conflict », in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012 , pp. 337-370
- “ Belgrade, Moscow and Washington in the War of Kosovo: Dispelling the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Myth”, in Hall Gardner & Oleg Kobtzeff, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to War, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 433-442
- “ Espaces et cultures du Bassin de la Neva : représentations mythiques et réalités géopolitiques, in Walter Zidaric, ed., Saint-Petersbourg : 1703-2003, Actes du Colloque international, Université de Nantes, mai 2003, Nantes : Centre de Recherches sur les Identités Nationales et l’Interculturalité, pp. 19-49, 2004,
- “ Environmental Security and Civil Society”, in- Gardner, Hall, ed., Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000, pp. 219-296.
- “ Au-delà de la Sibérie: l'Eglise Orthodoxe et les Indigènes de l'Alaska” (Beyond Siberia : The Orthodox Church and the Indigenous People of Alaska), in - Chichlo, Boris, ed., Sibérie II, Paris: Institut des Etudes Slaves, 1999, pp. 133-148
- “ Dwindling democracy (The Russian presidential election)”, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XII, N° 3, March 1996, pp. 7-9.
- “ L'Evêque et le chamane” (The Bishop and the Shaman), in - Charrin-Pochtar, Anne-Victoire, (ed.), Les Sibériens, special issue N° 78 of Autrement, Paris, 1995, pp. 80-93.
- “ Map of Russian America in the 1800s”, Alaska Magazine, October 1988, vol. 54, N° 10, pp. 20-21 (first complete map of Russian colonies in 19th century N. America).
- “ Ruling Siberia: the imperial power, the Orthodox Church and the Native people”, Siberica, British Siberian Studies Seminar, vol. II, 1984, pp. 6-15. (favorably reviewed by David Collins in Siberia: A Select, Annotated Bibliography of English Language Works Relating to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, Oxford, Denver, Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1991).
- “ La Colonisation russe en Amérique du Nord : 18-19ème siècles”, Boréales, N° 36-37, 1985, pp. 75-78.
- “Environmental Security and Civil Society”, in- Gardner, Hall, ed., Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000, pp. 219-296. Favorably reviewed in Marek Payerhin, Transitions and Environment in Poland”, An Annotated Bibliography for the Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Project prepared for the University of Michigan’s Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies (http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/pdf/Payerhin1.pdf ).
- “Au-delà de la Sibérie: l'Eglise Orthodoxe et les Indigènes de l'Alaska” (Beyond Siberia : The Orthodox Church and the Indigenous People of Alaska), in - Chichlo, Boris, ed., Sibérie II, Paris: Institut des Etudes Slaves, 1999, pp. 133-148 favorably reviewed in James Forsyth, Reviewed work(s): Siberie II: Questions siberiennes: Histoire, cultures, litterature by Boris Chichlo, Slavic Review, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 660-661. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2697366661: “one of the most interesting essays [of the volume]”).
- “Holocauste en URSS: un héritage sanglant”, Enquête sur l'Histoire, N° 22, Août-Sept., 1997, pp. 14-17.
- “The Forgotten Religion: the Geopolitics of the Orthodox world”, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XIII, N° 1, November 1996, pp. 10-11, 26.
- “Dwindling democracy (The Russian presidential election)”, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XII, N° 3, March 1996, pp. 7-9.
- "Les Chiffres du Goulag. Un révisionnisme rampant”, Enquête sur l'Histoire, N° 9, Août-Sept., 1994, pp. 46-48
- “La Colonisation russe en Amérique du Nord : 18-19ème siècles”, Boréales, N° 36-37, 1985, pp. 75-78.
Editorials and journalistic publications
Translations
Monograph:
Theodore S. Greenberg, Linda M. Samuel, Wingate Grant, & Larissa Gray, Stolen Asset Recovery: A Good Practices Guide for Non-Conviction Based Asset Forfeiture, Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2009. (co-translator with Gleb Store)
From French and Russian into English: Script + interviews and dialogue, English version of Reflets de la danse: le Kirov (The Kirov ballet theater), French national TV channel TF1 production, nominated for Emmy award—best foreign documentary.
From French into English: Rupnik, Jacques: “In Search of Central Europe: Ten Years Later”, in Gardner, Hall, (ed.), Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.
From English into French:
Khodarkovsky, M., “Découverte, invasion, rencontre”, in - Charrin-Pochtar, Anne-Victoire, ed., Les Sibériens, special issue N° 78 of Autrement, Paris, 1995, pp. 64-80.
Plus free-lance journalistic assignments for various employers including NBC-News
Anchorage, Alaska Magazine, and major American, French, and Russian periodicals, corporate
publications and audio-visual media (complete list upon request).
- "Understanding Ukraine and its relation to Russia", Nature & Cultures, No. 7 (online)
- "Georges Pernoud (1947 - 2021)", Nature & Cultures, No. 5 (online)
- "Understanding the situation in Belarus", Nature & Cultures, No. 4 (online)
- "City in a Park, city by the sea : my Helsinki", Nature & Cultures, No. 3, May 2020, www.natureandcultures.net/helsinki.html
- "La deuxième guerre de Corée aura-t-elle lieu?", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 2013
- "Quel avenir pour le Parti Républicain?", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 7 Nov. 2012
- "De la "dictature de la médiocrité" à une intensification de la vie politique américaine. Ce qui a déjà changé en 2012 à la veille des résultats", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 6 Nov. 2012 (bilan de la campagne présidentiuelle US à la veille des résultats; prédit une victoire d'Obama grâce à l'électorat des swing states).
- "The Arctic: A New Mediterranean?", Nature and Cultures, issue 1, Spring 2013
- "Zoos: Who Needs Them?" (co-written with Iaroslav Rovenskikh under the pen name of "Alan Aftonfalker"), Nature and Cultures, No. 1, Fall 2012
- "Obama: l'heure du bilan", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 6 Sept. 2012
- "Fin de la convention républicaine: à Tampa, une Amérique morose", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 31 Août 2012
- "L'affaire Pussy Riot: un simple chahut qui dégénère en intifada juridique et culturelle", Huffington Post-francophone edition, 18 Août 2012
- "Les Hirondelles font-elles le printemps russe"? Huffington Post-francophone edition, 14 février 2012
- “Russian-Western Relations after the Georgian conflict: Cold War II… or Worse?”, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XXVII, N° 1, Fall 2008, pp. 1-6.
- "Dwindling Democracy (...) ?", Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XII, N° 3, March 1996, pp. 7-9.
- “Holocauste en URSS: un héritage sanglant”, Enquête sur l'Histoire, N° 22, Août-Sept., 1997, pp. 14-18
- “ The Forgotten Religion: the Geopolitics of the Orthodox world”, Scripta Politica et Economica, vol. XIII, N° 1, November 1996, pp. 10-11, 26.
- "Les Chiffres du Goulag. Un révisionnisme rampant", Enquête sur l'Histoire, N° 9, Août-Sept., 1994, pp. 46-48.
- "Préface", Mike Rostad & Larry Matfay, Time to Dance, Anchorage, 1988.
- “Map of Russian America in the 1800s”, Alaska Magazine, October 1988, vol. 54, N° 10, pp. 20-21 (first map ever published, showing all Russian settlements from Siberia to California).
Translations
Monograph:
Theodore S. Greenberg, Linda M. Samuel, Wingate Grant, & Larissa Gray, Stolen Asset Recovery: A Good Practices Guide for Non-Conviction Based Asset Forfeiture, Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2009. (co-translator with Gleb Store)
From French and Russian into English: Script + interviews and dialogue, English version of Reflets de la danse: le Kirov (The Kirov ballet theater), French national TV channel TF1 production, nominated for Emmy award—best foreign documentary.
From French into English: Rupnik, Jacques: “In Search of Central Europe: Ten Years Later”, in Gardner, Hall, (ed.), Central and South-central Europe in Transition, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000.
From English into French:
Khodarkovsky, M., “Découverte, invasion, rencontre”, in - Charrin-Pochtar, Anne-Victoire, ed., Les Sibériens, special issue N° 78 of Autrement, Paris, 1995, pp. 64-80.
Plus free-lance journalistic assignments for various employers including NBC-News
Anchorage, Alaska Magazine, and major American, French, and Russian periodicals, corporate
publications and audio-visual media (complete list upon request).