Robert M. Cutler is Senior Research Fellow for Energy Security at the NATO Association of Canada and a longtime expert in Eurasian affairs and international energy diplomacy. Educated at MIT, the Geneva Graduate Institute, and the University of Michigan, he taught and conducted research for over a decade in Canada, France, Russia, Switzerland, and the U.S. His early academic work foresaw the Soviet collapse with striking accuracy, predicting Gorbachev’s glasnost, Kazakhstan’s 1986 uprising, and the centrifugal momentum of the non-Russian republics. Since 1991, he has anticipated the strategic choices of Eurasia’s major energy actors. A former Senior Researcher at Carleton University, he has advised governments, corporations, and international institutions. His current research integrates complex-systems analysis with cognitive and organizational resilience, emphasizing adaptive responses to systemic volatility