Professor Bowers has over thirty years of teaching at the college and university level. In addition to his teaching experience, Bowers has had governmental assignments relevant to International Relations and Comparative Politics. From 1982 through 1987, Bowers worked as an Intelligence Analyst for the US Department of the Army. Over the years, he developed an extensive multi-disciplinary program of study of the political transition of communist societies in Eastern Europe. In 1998, Dr. Bowers founded an institute to support teaching, research, and service in this area. Since 2006, this institute has functioned as the Center for Security and Science and is based in the Helms School of Government. Since 1998, Bowers has directed contracts for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Intelligence Council, and the USMC Intelligence Activity. In February, 2000, Bowers opened an office in Moldova to direct work in the former USSR.
Articles
Islam in Ingushetia and Chechnya (with Yavus Akhmadov and Ashley Ann Derrick), The Journal of Social, Political and Econimic Studies (2004)
Building on an earlier article entitled Islam in the North Caucasus, by Bowers at al.,...
Problems of Post-Communist Education: The Romanian Example, The Journal of Social, Political and Econimic Studies (2002)
Illustrates the crucial role of education in transforming post-Communist society by developments in Romania during...
The Transformation of the Romanian Criminal Justice System, International Journal of Police Science & Management (2001)
In 1989, Romanian freedom fighters liberated the nation from the yoke of an oppressive dictatorship....
Information Warfare: The Computer Revolution is Altering How Future Wars will be Conducted, Armed Forces Journal International (1998)
Books
Contributions to Books
Introduction: Issues of Post-Communist Transition (with Marion T. Doss, Jr.), Issues of Post-Communist Transition (2001)
The Moldovan Confederation Conundrum (with Valeria Ciobanu and Marion T. Doss, Jr.), Issues of the Post-Communist Transition: Structure, Culture, and Justice (2001)
The Gagauz leadership has advanced several basic demands. The first category of demands relates to...
The Stability of the Dniester Moldovan Republic: A Post-Election Analysis (with Oazu Nantoi; Valeria Ciobanu; and Marion T. Doss, Jr.), Issues of the Post-Communist Transition: Structure, Culture, and Justice (2001)
The communists' electoral victory and the elevation of Voronin to the Presidency drew Moldova closer...
Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe, From Beyond the Soviet Union: The Fragmentation of Power (1997)
Unpublished Papers
Arkhonskaya: A Terek Cossack Community (with Anna Vladimirovna Chekashkina, Oleg Abzaletdinov, and S. Reed Bowers II) (2011)
Identification of Transnational Threats (with Stephen M. Parke) (2009)
In the past, the starting point for threat identification was the nation state. Today, national...
Presentations
Anaga (with Ekatarina Janiashvili) (2008)
As part of a 2007-2008 project examining rural life in the eastern regions of Georgia,...
Kitaani: Georgian Ossetians (with Eka Janiashvili) (2008)
In spite of a South Ossetian independence referendum, there are indications that this trend does...
False Documents in Former USSR (with Mousafar A. Olimov, Viorica Vladeca, and Valeria Ciobanu) (2007)
The false document trade is prevalent in three areas: counterfeiting of passports and identity cards,creation...
North Caucasus Baseline Project: Adygea (with Oxana Klimenko and Lena Solovyeva) (2007)
As of 2007, there are few signs that the Muslim community of the Adygea Republic...
The Islamic Threat to Eastern Central Asia (with Bakhodir Musayev and Steven A. Samson) (2006)
Utilizing the works of Uzbek scholars and journalists, the authors offer an analysis of the...