Dr. Gerard Janco, President

America-Eurasia Business Coalition

Dr. Gerard J. Janco is the Founder and President of the America-Eurasia Business Coalition.

Dr. Janco has been a leading force in creating new analytical approaches to understanding recent developments occurring within 21st Century Eurasia. His approach is to access, then understand, the dynamic interrelationships between European and Asian nations after collapse of the Soviet Union. Dr. Janco's models include the economic and military ties compelling European integration, disintegration of the socialist state, and the reemergence of Eastern Europe and Central Asia nations. Such change is coupled with rapid globalization including trade with Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Africa which is essential for understanding the new Eurasia (Europe and Asia) supercontinent.



A central feature of Dr. Janco's approach is identifying how the United States can develop lasting relations with these new nations. The new Eurasia encompasses the geo-eco-political landscape of Europe and Asia - regions rich in terms of their history, cultures, peoples, languages, and natural resources. Such dynamic interactions have lasted over many centuries. After the collapse of the Soviet empire, there is a greater and freer movement of peoples, ideas, and goods. Such move is facilitated by the Internet. Dr. Janco's extensive research documents that Eurasian and American policymakers, politicians, business leaders, and educators must understand each other while providing a realistic economic development framework within which to fully nurture these new developments. Unfortunately, the Ukraine crisis has created a new Gordian Knot in East-West relations as Putin's regime cross the Rubicon and embarked on a journey to destroy not only Mother Russia but Father Ukraine.

Dr. Janco, as an expert in Eurasian affairs, founded The Eurasia Center in 1988 as The Center for Soviet-American Relations. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the name was changed to The Center for American-Eurasian Studies and Relations. This was a watershed event making it the first organization in America to adopt the term "Eurasia." With broad acceptance of the term for this rapidly evolving region of the world the name was shortened to simply "The Eurasia Center". He created the well-regarded Eurasia Report in 1990 as Publisher and Editor. The Eurasia Report has been rebranded the Eurasia Brief.

Dr. Janco founded the Eurasian Business Coalition (EBC) in 1996. The EBC is an alliance of businesses from America and Eurasia to promote investments and two-way trade. He has been instrumental in organizing a number of Eurasian "Roundtables". These events led to The Eurasia Center becoming a prime sponsor of the annual US-Russian Forum in Washington, D.C. since 2001 and ending in 2013. The Center organized major economic conferences in Washington, DC focusing on the new developments that the nations of the BRICS and the SILK ROAD were making.  He made a strategic decision to rebrand The Eurasia Center as The America-Eurasia Center with its Business Coalition because is more reflective of its mission to bring positive relations between two large continents of the world. Since the Ukraine crisis is dividing the global village, corporations must now face a new Cold War epoch which has greater risks after the era of peace established by Reagan and Gorbachev has been dissipated. The Lost Peace is what must be won back to reestablish the global village and restore world order, not on the basis of totalitarianism, which did not work in 1914-1918/1939-1945 timeframes and will work today. Leaders in Russia and China have decided to rebrand their economic projects, the BRICS and the Silk Road Initiative as a political force that will challenge the West’s role (G7) in the global order and clash with the West in a number of regions of the world. This new era in geopolitical rivalry will not bode well for economic progress. What was once a new century full of progress and hope, has turned into a dangerous era of global competition, which is affecting international trade and commerce.

Dr. Janco is a credentialed expert in international security and political affairs having earned a double Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He received his Master’s Degree in Security Policy Studies at the George Washington University's School of Public and International Affairs in Washington, D.C. USA. He has worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the United States Congress, at the United States Institute of Peace, and for the Atlantic Council of the United States. He has lectured extensively at universities in America and also at some of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe including the Charles University in Prague, Jageillonian University in Cracow, Comenius University in Bratislava, and related universities in Russia. He has been instrumental in setting up American liaison offices in Prague and Moscow. Dr. Janco has been further energized to bring even greater numbers of programs and initiatives for greater economic progress between America and Eurasia (Europe and Asia).

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