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August 2011
As FPRI gears up for the new academic year, we are especially pleased to note new Officers, Trustees, Advisors, and Fellows -- all additions designed to enhance FPRI’s mission to bring the insights of scholarship to bear on the foreign policy challenges facing the United States and to advance the national interest. Through our Wachman Center, we seek to foster civic and international literacy in the community and in the classroom.
We are also pleased to list our roster of speakers for our next History Institute for Teachers (Oct. 15-16, 2011, Philadelphia), focusing on “Teaching the Middle East: Between Authoritarianism and Reform,” a project supported by a generous grant from FPRI Trustee Robert A. Fox. We will shortly announce the 45 teachers who have been selected to participate in the weekend-long conference. Note that FPRI Partners at the Platinum Level may also attend as Observers.
Become an FPRI Partner online at http://www.fpri.org/contribute.html and join us for our Annual Dinner on November 15, where we will present the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service to Fouad Ajami, one of the country’s most incisive commentators on the Middle East. For details, visit:
http://www.fpri.org/events/2011/20111115.dinner.ajami.html
)FPRI is pleased to announce the election of John Hillen as Treasurer and James E. Phillips as a Trustee. Hillen succeeds Charles B. Grace, Jr., who remains a trustee of FPRI.
The Hon. John Hillen, President and CEO, Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.
The Hon. John Hillen has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., formerly Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc., since 2008. Sotera provides mission-critical counterterrorism, cyber intelligence, cyber warfare, C4ISR, and force mobility and modernization systems to national security agencies and programs of the US government. From 2005 – 2007, Dr. Hillen served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs in the Bush administration. Prior to his appointment in the administration, Dr. Hillen served as the President of what is now CGI Federal Inc, the American subsidiary of Canadian IT firm CGI, Inc. Previously he was the head of the $415 million defense and intelligence business at American Management Systems Inc., which was sold to CACI International in 2004. Prior to that he was the Chief Operating Officer of Island ECN, Inc., a $500M+ financial services firm in New York City. Dr. Hillen is a director of Oceus Networks Inc, and a member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO). A member of the executive committee of the board of the Professional Services Council, he is widely recognized as an industry leader in the government contracting field and was recently selected as one of the “Top Twenty People to Watch” by ExecutiveBiz magazine. Prior to his business career, Dr. Hillen worked as a military policy expert and also served for twelve years as an Army officer. He is the author or editor of several books on international security and has been published in dozens of leading journals and newspapers including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. A veteran of several think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and CSIS, he was for many years a contributing editor at National Review and an ABC News commentator. During his time in the Army, Hillen was a reconnaissance and special operations officer in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He has been decorated for his actions in combat, one episode of which is recounted in the recent military memoir Warrior’s Rage, by Douglas Macgregor. He currently serves on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the federal advisory committee supporting the head of the US Navy. In addition to his service on FPRI’s Board, Dr. Hillen is a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Hampden-SydneyCollege, and the Committee on Economic Development. He graduated from Duke University, holds a Master’s Degree from King’s College London, a doctorate from Oxford, and received his MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell.
James E. (Jim) Phillips
Jim Phillips is the Mobility Division Chief Financial Officer, a division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. As a world leader in designing, developing and manufacturing transport products, which include the C-17 Globemaster II, the CH-47 Chinook, the V-22 Osprey and the new KC-46A Tanker. All are lynchpins in U.S. military aviation as well as aviation programs the world over. Mobility division has 8800 employees in two major sites -- Ridley Park, PA and Long Beach, CA; along with employees in Mukilteo, WA, St. Louis, MO, and Wichita, KS. Mr. Phillips was named to this position in October of 2010. He was previously the CFO for the Rotorcraft Division of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems and was also responsible for the Finance functional leadership for the Ridley Park, PA and Mesa, AZ sites. During his 33 years with Boeing and Rockwell Aerospace and Defense (acquired in 1996), he has held a broad range of positions within Finance and served at various levels of the Corporation. His recent assignments included CFO C3 Networks Division, CFO Launch and Satellite Systems, Division Director, Finance – Huntington Beach Air Force Systems Programs; Controller, Satellite and Ground Control Systems; and Director, Financial Planning & Analysis for Space and Communications Group. He attended Pepperdine University on a baseball scholarship and graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration. He joined the company as an Accounting Analyst in the Saberliner Division of Rockwell International. During that time he attended Pepperdine University in the evenings to earn his MBA.
FPRI is chaired by Robert L. Freedman, Of Counsel, Dechert LLP. The Institute has three Vice Chairs – Samuel J. Savitz, founder of The Savitz Organization; John M. Templeton, Jr., President of The Templeton Foundation; and Dov Zakheim, former Undersecretary of Defense (and author of the new book A Vulcan’s Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged the Reconstruction of Afghanistan).
FPRI has named 7 distinguished individuals to its Board of Advisors: Walter A. McDougall, Michael S. Doran, Thomas V. Draude, Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., Frank G. Hoffman, Kori Schake and former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane. McDougall, a long-time Senior Fellow of FPRI and co-chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers, has been named Chairman of the Board of Advisors. Members of the Board of Advisors are called upon for their expertise to offer strategic counsel and critique on the present and future direction of the organization.
Walter A. McDougall, Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
Walter McDougall is co-chair, with David Eisenhower, of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers and chair of FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 1974 and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. His books include: The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, which won a Pulitzer Prize; Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776; Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur; Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828, and Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877 (Harpers, March 2008).
His FPRI essays can be found here:
http://www.fpri.orgZ/byauthor.html#mcdougall
Michael S. Doran, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
An expert on the international politics of the Middle East, Michael Doran has worked in both academia and government. In government he has served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and as a Senior Director at the National Security Council. He has held appointments at Princeton University, University of Central Florida, and NYU. A He has published frequently in Foreign Affairs magazine, and one of his articles, “Somebody Else’s Civil War” (Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2002), was the first piece after 9/11 to interpret al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington as an expression of a war within Islam—a thesis that is now common wisdom. Dr. Doran received his MA and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.
Brig. Gen. Thomas V. Draude (USMC, Ret.), President, Marine Corps University Foundation
General Draude served in the U.S. Marine Corps for almost 31 years, retiring on 1 January 1993. His career included serving three times in Vietnam as an infantry platoon and company commander, and as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marines. He served as the Assistant Division Commander of the First Marine Division during Desert Shield and Desert Storm; he also was responsible for the Marine deception operations in the combat theatre. He retired as the Director of Public Affairs for the Marine Corps and served on the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. He received two Distinguished Service Medals and ten personal awards for combat, including two Silver Star Medals and the Purple Heart Medal. Today, General Draude is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Marine Corps University Foundation and the General Robert H. Barrow Distinguished Chair of Military Studies at the Marine Corps University.
Major Gen. Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. (USAF, Ret.), Visiting Professor of the Practice of Law and Director of the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, Duke University
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010. Dunlap retired from the Air Force in June 2010, having attained the rank of major general during a 34-year career in the Judge Advocate Corps. In his capacity as deputy judge advocate general from May 2006 to March 2010, he assisted the judge advocate general in the professional supervision of more than 2,200 judge advocates, 350 civilian lawyers, 1,400 enlisted paralegals, and 500 civilians around the world. He served tours in the United Kingdom and Korea, and he deployed for operations in the Middle East and Africa, including those in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A prolific author and accomplished public speaker, Dunlap’s commentary on a wide variety of national security topics has been published in leading newspapers and military journals. His 2001 essay written for Harvard University’s Carr Center on “lawfare,” a concept he defines as “the use or misuse of law as a substitute for traditional military means to accomplish an operational objective,” has been highly influential among military scholars and in the broader legal academy.
Frank G. Hoffman, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
From August of 2009 to June 2011, Mr. Hoffman served in the Department of the Navy as the Senior Director, Naval Capabilities and Readiness. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Mr. Hoffman began his public service career when he was commissioned out of the NROTC program at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1983 he was assigned to the Requirements and Programs Division at HQMC, where he was responsible for Marine force structure and manpower studies and analyses. He later served at the Studies and Analysis Division at Quantico as their historical analyst, and represented the Marine Corps on the Defense Science Board and at the Commission on Roles and Missions in 1995. Up to 1998, Hoffman continued to serve at Quantico as the national security analyst and Director of the Marine Strategic Studies Group. As a Marine Reservist he also worked at the HQMC Strategic Initiatives Group at the same time. In 1999-2001, he was named to the National Security Study Group, which was the professional staff supporting the U.S. National Security Commission for the 21st Century. He returned to work at Quantico as a strategic planner and concept developer for the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, taking a position as a Research Fellow at the Lab’s Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities. He has written extensively on distributed operations, urban ops, and hybrid threats. While at Quantico he worked with Joint Forces Command and our British, Australian and Israeli partners on alternative futures, concepts, and a number of wargames and experimentation activities. He retired from the USMC with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
His FPRI essays can be found here:
http://www.fpri.org/byauthor.html#hoffmanf
Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Advisor
Robert C. (Bud) McFarlane serves as the Chairman of McFarlane Associates. Mr. McFarlane was the National Security Advisor under President Reagan from 1983-1985. In 1971 he was named a White House Fellow and served in the Office of Legislative Affairs in the White House. Following that assignment he became Military Assistant to Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft. Near the end of this five-year assignment to the White House he was appointed by President Ford as his Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Navy & Marine Corps’ highest peacetime military decoration. In 1981 he was appointed by President Reagan and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Counselor to the Department of State. In 1982 President Reagan appointed Mr. McFarlane as his Deputy National Security Advisor. In 1983 he was appointed by the President as his Special Representative in the Middle East. Following that assignment he returned to the White House and was appointed to the Reagan Cabinet as National Security Advisor. McFarlane served two combat tours in Vietnam. In March 1965, he commanded the artillery battery in the first landing of U.S. combat forces in Vietnam. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1979 with the rank of Lt. Colonel. He is a co-founder (with Dr. Henry Kissinger) and Vice Chair of the America-China Society, serves on the Board of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the White House Fellows’ Foundation, and has been a member of the Boards of The Travelers, Dillon Read (France Fund), and Church & Dwight.
Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Kori Schake is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of international security studies at the U.S. Military Academy. From 2007 to 2008 she was the deputy director for policy planning in the state department. During President Bush's first term, she was the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council. She has held the Distinguished Chair of International Security Studies at West Point, and also served in the faculties of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs, and the National Defense University. She is on the boards of the journal Orbis and the Centre for European Reform and blogs for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government. Her publications include Managing American Hegemony: Essays on Power in a Time of Dominance (Hoover Institution Press, 2009), “Choices for the Quadrennial Defense Review” (Orbis, 2009), “Dealing with a Nuclear Iran” (Policy Review, 2007), “Jurassic Pork” (New York Times, 2006). She coauthored “How America Should Lead” (Policy Review, 2002), and coedited The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances (2002), and “Building a European Defense Capability” (Survival, 1999). From 1990 to 1996, she worked in Pentagon staff jobs, first in the Joint Staff’s Strategy and Policy Directorate (J-5) and then in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
They join existing members of the FPRI Board of Advisors, including –
Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science at the Yale School of Management;
David Eisenhower, Director, Institute of Public Service, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, and Co-Chair FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers;
Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security, and National Correspondent, The Atlantic Magazine;
Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University;
William H. McNeill, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago; and
Murray Weidenbaum, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Washington University.
FPRI is pleased to announce the appointment of four Senior Fellows: Joseph Celeski, Senior Research Fellow, Joint Special Operations University; Arthur Cyr, The A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, Carthage College; Daniel V. Friedheim, Assistant Teaching Professor of International Politics, Drexel University; and Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond. Brief bios appear below.
Col. Joseph D. Celeski (Ret.), Senior Research Fellow, Joint Special Operations University
Col. Joseph D. Celeski retired from a 30-year career with the U.S. Army in September, 2004 after successful completion of commanding the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He assumed command of the Group in May 2002 in Afghanistan where he also served as the commander of the Combined and Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF) for two tours in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. He is currently a contributing writer and Senior Research Fellow to the Joint Special Operations University in Hurlburt Field, Florida. His published works include articles on Special Forces in Somalia, the use of Special Forces in joint urban combat, and a book on Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century.
Arthur Cyr, The A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, Carthage College
Arthur I. Cyr is the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, and Director of the Clausen Center for World Business, at Carthage College in Kenosha Wisconsin. Previously, he was President of the Chicago World Trade Center Association, the Vice President of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, a faculty member and administrator at UCLA, and an executive at the Ford Foundation. Dr. Cyr received a Ph.D. with distinction in political science from Harvard University in 1971. He served in the U.S. Army reserves and on active duty as an officer in military intelligence.
Daniel V. Friedheim, Assistant Teaching Professor of International Politics, Drexel University
Daniel V. Friedheim is Research Fellow and Deputy Director of FPRI’s Project on Democratic Transitions. He is also Assistant Teaching Professor of international politics at Drexel University. His research interests include democratic and authoritarian regimes, foreign policy, and political development with a focus on Eastern Europe and Latin America. Professor Friedheim is author of the articles “Bringing Society Back into Democratization Theory,” “Hierarchy under Anarchy,” and “The Peaceful East German Revolution” in East European Politics & Societies, International Organization and German Politics, as well as the chapters “Accelerating Collapse” and “Salazar of Portugal” in books for Cambridge University Press and Greenwood Press. He is a reviewer for Oxford University Press and Studies in Comparative International Development and is currently completing the book Into Thin Air: How One State Collapsed on the East German democratic transition. He received his Ph.D. in political science with distinction from Yale University and held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies and Fulbright Foundation. He has been a tenured Foreign Service Officer for the US State Department and a consultant for both the World Bank and the US Agency for International Development.
Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang is Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Department at the University of Richmond, specializing in international political economy and Asian studies. He has been a Visiting Professor or Fellow at National Chengchi University (Taipei), National Sun-Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), El Colegio de Mexico, and Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University (Seoul, South Korea). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His latest and forthcoming publications cover the China-India rivalry, the rise of China, and China-Taiwan relations.
For the complete list of FPRI scholars, visit: http://www.fpri.org/about/scholars.html
Daniel Brumberg, Senior Adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, on Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
Daniel Brumberg is Senior Adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where he focuses on issues of democratization and political reform in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. He is also an associate professor at Georgetown University and a former senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Project (2003-04). Previously, he was a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at USIP, where he pursued a study of power sharing in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brumberg was a Mellon junior fellow at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the International Forum on Democratic Studies. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University and a visiting fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center, and has taught at the University of Chicago. Brumberg is the author of many articles on political and social change in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. With a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, he is currently working on a comparative study of power-sharing experiments in Algeria, Kuwait and Indonesia. A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and the advisory board of the International Forum on Democratic Studies, Brumberg is also chairman of the nonprofit Foundation on Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East. He has worked closely with a number of nongovernmental organizations in the Arab world, including the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs. Brumberg is also a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Association’s Political Science and Politics. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Michael Reynolds, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, on Turkey and Its Foreign Policy under AKP
Michael A. Reynolds has been an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University since 2005. He received his BA in Government and Slavic Languages from Harvard University, MA in Political Science from Columbia University, and PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He teaches courses including Introduction to the Middle East; Nation, State, and Empire: The Ottoman, Romanov, and Hapsburg Experiences; Comparative Transformations in the Middle East and Eurasia; and War and Politics in the Modern Middle East. He is author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and the Russian Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Jillian Schwedler, Associate Professor of Political Science, Honors Program Director at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, on Political Culture, Protest and Dissent in Jordan
Jillian Schwedler is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the Honors Program Director. She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Protesting Jordan: Law, Space, Dissent, and is the author of Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She received her Ph.D. in Politics, Masters in Middle East Studies, and Bachelors in Near Eastern Languages and Literature, all from New York University.
Christopher Swift, Fellow at the University of Virginia Law School’s Center for International Security Law, on The Crisis in Yemen: AQAP, Saleh, and Governmental Instabillity
Christopher Swift is an attorney and political scientist specializing in international law and contemporary armed conflict. A fellow at the University of Virginia Law School’s Center for International Security Law, he has travelled to Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union to examine al-Qaeda’s relationships with indigenous Muslim insurgencies. Dr. Swift’s legal practice focuses on complex international disputes, compliance with U.S. foreign trade and investment laws, and various aspects of public and private international law. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where he enforced economic sanctions programs targeting terrorist syndicates, weapons proliferators, and other specially designated entities. Between 2006 and 2007, Dr. Swift served an international law fellow at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, where he examined armed conflict and sectarian violence in Iraq. He was previously affiliated with organizations including Freedom House, where he worked on Russian affairs, and the Center for Strategic & International Studies, where he served as an aide to former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Swift has appeared as a guest analyst for CNN International, BBC News, National Public Radio, RT Television, Voice of America and other leading international broadcast media. He holds an A.B. in Government and History from Dartmouth College, an M.St. in International Relations of the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. from Georgetown University. He successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Politics & International Studies at the University of Cambridge in October 2010.
Audra Grant, Political Scientist, Rand Corporation, on The Moroccan Model
Audra Grant is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where she has worked on various projects concerning the evolution of domestic politics of Iraq; tribal configurations and insurgent group organization in Iraq; development in Al-Anbar province; the nature of apocalyptic rhetoric in Muslim discourse and Muslim perceptions thereof; the structure of attitudinal support for radicalism in the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia; and issues related to democracy and governance in Africa and the Middle East and to societies in transition. A former intelligence analyst at the U.S. State Department, Grant focused on Middle East political analysis and on implementing and analyzing public opinion research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She has conducted research on the dynamics of political Islam; democratization; and U.S. foreign policy in her extensive travels to the MENA, including Iraq. She has published articles on party dynamics in Algeria and Morocco; peace and reconciliation in Algeria; attitudes among Arab-Israelis; identifying support for democratization among Palestinians; gender as a determinant of support for political Islam and hard-line foreign policies; and illicit trade patterns in Africa. A visiting scholar at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco (2006–07), Grant taught courses on Middle East politics and U.S. foreign policy and is an adjunct professor at The George Washington University. She is fluent in German and proficient in Arabic. Grant has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Amin Tarzi, Director, Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University, on Is the Green Movement Dead? Political Dissent in Iran
Amin Tarzi is the Director of Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. In his position, Dr. Tarzi supports the MCU by providing a resident scholar with expertise in Middle East and South/Central Asia, representing the Marine Corps at various academic and professional forums, and providing expert advice for all Professional Military Education programs. Prior to joining the MCU, Dr. Tarzi was with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Regional Analysis team focusing on Afghanistan and Pakistan. While working at RFE/RL, he also taught courses in political Islam, cultural intelligence, terrorist organizations and similar topics at the Washington-based Center for Advanced Defense Studies. Before joining RFE/RL, Dr. Tarzi worked as Senior Research Associate for the Middle East at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies where he primarily researched Iran and its missile and nuclear developments and policies. At the Monterey Institute, Dr. Tarzi also taught a graduate seminar on Middle East security policies and threat perceptions with focus on Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Israel. His work experience includes the post of Political Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Mission at the United Nations and the position of Researcher/Analyst on Iranian affairs at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi. In addition to his formal work, Dr. Tarzi participated for five years in a series of informal Track II meetings with civilian and military personalities from Iran, Israel and several Arab states to discuss threat perceptions, security and confidence building measures, among other topics. He has lived and traveled extensively in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and the United Arab Emirates and has traveled several times to Iran and other Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the Department of Middle East Studies at New York University. His latest works are Taliban and the Crisis in Afghanistan, a co-edited volume with Professor Robert D. Crews of Stanford University (Harvard University Press, 2008) and The Iranian Puzzle Piece: Understanding Iran in the Global Context (MCU Press, 2009).
Eric Trager, FPRI Associate Scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, on Elections, Repression, Sucession and the Future of Egypt
Eric Trager is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and the Ira Weiner Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Trager writes for Commentary Magazine, Atlantic Online, Foreign Affairs, and The New Republic. For his dissertation on Egyptian governance, he has interviewed over 100 opposition leaders.
Michael Doran, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, on The Middle East and the US in Geopolitical Perspective
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