Mark Almond

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Mark Almond is a writer and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

Almond holds a Master's degree (M.A.), and is the chair of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group (which despite its name is not affiliated with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights). He has served as an election observer under the aegis of the BHHRG in a number of countries including Georgia and Ukraine.^[1] He has been critical of what he characterizes as Western interference with democracy, such as the activities of George Soros. His research interests lie in 19th Century and 20th Century Central-Eastern Europe; he has written a biography of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu and a study of the Bosnian War in its historical context. He has recently been teaching a course on 18th Century France, focusing on the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville.

[edit] Publications

Decline without fall: Romania under Ceausescu 1988 (London) Alliance Publishers, for the Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies, ISBN 0-907967-96-5
Europe's backyard war: the war in the Balkans 1994 (London) Heinemann, ISBN 0-434-00003-5
National pacifism: Germany's new temptation 1991 (London) Alliance Publishers. ISBN 0-907967-26-4

He also writes articles for national papers such as New Statesman, National Review, and The Mail on Sunday.