This is a partial listing of Dr. Waller’s scholarly books, papers and articles.
Books & monographs
- Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains (Regnery, 2024), author.
- Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy, Counterpropaganda and Political Warfare (Crossbow, 2010), editor.
- Founding Political Warfare Documents of the United States (IWP/Crossbow 2009/2010), editor.
- The Public Diplomacy Reader (Institute of World Politics Press, 2007), editor.
- Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War (Institute of World Politics Press, 2007), author.
- Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), editor with Ilan Berman.
- Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today (Westview, 1994), author.
- The Third Current of Revolution: Inside the ‘North American Front’ of El Salvador’s Guerrilla War (University Press of America, 1991).
Papers, chapters & articles
- “Making the world safe for prosperity: State Department needs an overhaul to be more business friendly; The case of the US Embassy and Tahoe Resources’ Escobal silver mine in Guatemala,” Georgetown Research, November 2017.
- “Weaponizing Ridicule,” Military Review, September-October 2017.
- “Russia’s New Information War: What It’s Like and What to Do About It,” in Fred Fleitz, ed., ed., Putin’s Reset: The Bear Is Back and How America Must Respond (Washington: Center for Security Policy, 2016).
- “Understanding Subversion: Non-Violent Warfare in an Age of Countering Violent Extremism,” paper delivered at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, NC, September 12, 2016.
- “The Muslim Brotherhood: Doctrine, Strategy, Operations & Vulnerabilities,” in Anna Bekele and Patrick Sookhdeo, eds., Meeting the Ideological Challenge of Islamism: How to Combat Modern Radical Islam (Westminster Institute/Isaac Publishing, 2015).
- “Getting Serious About Strategic Influence: How to Move Beyond the State Department’s Legacy of Failure,” Journal of International Security Affairs, December 2009.
- “The American Way of Propaganda: Lessons from the Founding Fathers,” Institute of World Politics occasional paper, 2006.
- “Making Jihad Work for America,” Journal of International Security Affairs, March 2006.
- “Prisons as Terrorist Breeding Grounds,” in James Forest, ed., The Making of a Terrorist, Vol. 1 of 3 (Praeger, 2005). Project of the Combating Terrorism Center, US Military Academy at West Point.
- “Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, June 2004.
- “Tropical Chekists: The Sandinista Secret Police Legacy in Nicaragua,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, Summer 2004.
- “The Legacy of the Soviet Secret Police in the Russian Federation,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, Summer 2004.
- “International Terrorism: The Communist Connection Revisited,” for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (Crossbow, 2002).
- “What Happened to the Soviet Terror Networks?” paper delivered at Hanns-Seidel Stiftung, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, May 2001.
- “The Future of Intelligence in Russia,” Intelligence and National Security (UK), Spring 2000.
- “Portrait of Putin’s Past,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. X, No. 3, January-February 2000.
- “Deception and Denial by Non-State Actors: The Case of Russian Organized Crime,” paper delivered at the National Strategy Information Center, September 1999.
- “‘Delay, Postpone, Obfuscate, Derail’ – A case study of US aid to the former USSR,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Winter 1997, with rebuttals from Ashton Carter from the US Department of Defense, and Ambassador Richard Morningstar from the US Department of State.
- “Police, Secret Police, and Civil Authority,” in The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Katharina Pistor, eds. (Westview, 1997).
- “Russia’s Security Services: A Checklist for Reforms,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. VII, No. 1, September-October 1997.
- “Primakov’s Imperial Line,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. VII, No. 3, January-February 1997.
- “Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 4: Hearings on the Participation of the Leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Summer 1996, pp. 603-622 (editor).
- “Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 3: Hearings ‘About the Illegal Financial Activity of the CPSU,'” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Spring 1996, pp. 271-311 (editor).
- “Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 2: Hearings ‘Concerning the Role of Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991,'” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Winter 1996, pp. 109-138 (editor).
- “Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 1: Hearings ‘Concerning the Role of the Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Fall 1995, pp. 411-450 (editor).
- “Russia’s Great Criminal Revolution: The Role of the Security Services,” with Victor Yasmann, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (University of California at Long Beach), December 1995.
- “Commonwealth of Chekists: The Former KGB Is Alive and Well in Post-Soviet Society,” in John W. Blaney, ed., The Successor States to the USSR (Congressional Quarterly, 1995).
- “DGI and KGB Political Operations in the United States,” in Brian Crozier, The KGB Lawsuits (London: Claridge Press, 1995).
- “Who Is Making Russian Foreign Policy?” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol V, No. 3, January-February 1995. Making RF For Pol Persp copy
- “Organized Crime and the Russian State: Challenges to US-Russian Cooperation,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1994.
- “Why Mutual Reduction in Intelligence Activity is a Bad Idea,” paper and presentation delivered at the Fourth International Glasnost Foundation Conference on the KGB Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Moscow), May 1994. Download PDF: waller-mutual-intel-1994
- “The KGB and its ‘Successors,’” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol IV, No. 4, April-May 1994. KGB & Successors Perspective Apr-May 94 copy
- “Post-Soviet Sakharovs: Renewed Persecution of Dissident Scientists and the American Response,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1994. DEM Post Soviet Sakharovs 02-01
- “Russia’s Legal Foundations for Civil Repression: Are Soviet Policies Being Reformed or Legalized?” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. I, No. 3, Summer 1993. DEM Russia Legal Found Repression 01-3
- “When Will Democrats Control the Former KGB? Opportunities for Russian-US Cooperation,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1992. DEM Dems Control KGB 01-1
- “Civil Authority and the Security Organs,” in Uri Ra’anan, Keith Armes and Kate Martin, eds., Russian Populism: Now Irreversible? (St. Martin’s Press, 1992).
- “KGB: The Perils of Arbitrary Power,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. II, No. 1, December 1991.
- “Right-Left-Right: The Changing Tactical Periods of the Salvadoran Insurgency, 1979-1981,” unpublished paper, Boston University, May 1990.
- “The Nicaraguan Resistance at a Crossroads,” with Enrique Bermudez, Strategic Review, Spring 1989.