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Elliott Abrams
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.
U.S. policy in the Middle East, Israel-Palestinian affairs, democracy promotion, human rights policy, U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8472 Email: estein@cfr.org
Mohamad Bazzi
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Journalism professor at New York University. Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday . Currently working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite community in Lebanon.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Islamic militancy, Shiite politics.
Phone: +1.212.998.3613 Email: mbazzi@cfr.org
Stephen Biddle
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle . Former associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror.
Phone: +1-202-509-8476 Email: sbiddle@cfr.org
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Former deputy assistant to the president, deputy national security adviser for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq under George W. Bush. U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. Current work focuses on American foreign policy writ large as well as American foreign policy toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
U.S. foreign policy; transatlantic relations; the United States and Asia; Russia and the West; the United States and the Middle East.
Phone: +1.212.434.9888
Isobel Coleman
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy; Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program
Author of the book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010). Contributing author to Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Coauthor of Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006).
Democratization, civil society, economic development, gender issues in the Middle East and South Asia, educational reform, and microfinance.
Phone: +1-212-434-9771 Email: icoleman@cfr.org
Steven A. Cook
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey . Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world. Currently writing a book on Egyptian politics and the future of U.S.-Egypt relations (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Phone: +1.202.509.8620 Email: scook@cfr.org
Robert Danin
Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
Former head, Office of the Quartet Representative, Tony Blair, in Jerusalem. Currently researching and writing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Middle East, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan; North Africa; Israeli-Palestinian affairs.
Phone: +1.202.509.8451 Email: rdanin@cfr.org
Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Pulitzer Prize-winner, former correspondent for the New York Times , and senior official in State and Defense Departments; expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security. Author of the new book Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, March 2009).
U.S. foreign policy; national security; Russia; Persian Gulf.
Phone: +1.212.434.9742; for all media requests call +1.212.434.9460 Email: jhillman@cfr.org
Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Former State Department director of policy planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001 - 2003), and principal Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush (1989 - 1993). Author or editor of?eleven books on U.S. foreign policy, including War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.
U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East
Phone: +1-212-434-9543; for all media requests, contact Lisa Shields at +1-212-434-9888 or sdoolin@cfr.org Email: president@cfr.org
Joel D. Hirst
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Country representative and deputy country representative for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) in Uganda and Venezuela. Currently researching the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas and its impact on U.S. foreign policy toward the region.
Democracy promotion, human rights, citizen participation, civic education, and elections; Stabilization and counter-insurgency; Latin America; U.S. foreign policy; program management; humanitarian emergencies, refugees and internally displaced persons.
Email: jhirst@cfr.org
Ed Husain
Senior Fellow
Author of The Islamist (Penguin, 2007). Former founding director of Quilliam, the British counter-extremism think tank. Previously a member and strategist for radical Islamist organizations in London.
Islamist ideologies; civil society counter radicalization strategies; government counterterrorism policies; Western Muslim communal discourse.
Email: ehusain@cfr.org
Thomas W. Lippman
Author and journalist specializing in Middle East affairs and Islam. Currently working on a book about the future of Saudi Arabia and its implications for the United States.
Middle East history and politics; U.S. relations with Arab world; history and economy of Saudi Arabia; nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
Phone: +1.202.363.6796 Email: tlippman@cfr.org
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, former member of State Department policy planning staff handling Northern Ireland peace process, Iran, Syria, and relations with the Muslim world.
U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy; counterinsurgency; nation-building; the geopolitics of energy; Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Phone: +1.617.496.4308 Email: Meghan_OSullivan@hks.harvard.edu
Daniel Senor
Former foreign policy advisor in the administration of George W. Bush and senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; previous foreign policy and communications aide in the U.S. Senate. Currently a founding partner of Rosemont Capital and author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle .
Middle East and Persian Gulf geopolitics, security, and economics; Israeli-Palestinian relations; Iraq; nation-building; post-conflict stabilization; role of foreign policy issues in domestic U.S. politics; media coverage of war; U.S. public diplomacy.
Phone: +1.212.933.9973 Email: dsenor@cfr.org
Steven Simon
Award-winning coauthor of The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack . Former director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats at the National Security Council. Current work examines the consequences of the American intervention in Iraq, Muslim/non-Muslim relations, and the role of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. security policy in the Middle East and South Asia; Middle East politics; Palestinian-Israeli relations; transatlantic approaches to Islamic activism; terrorism and counterterrorism; intelligence reform.
Phone: +1.202.509.8437 Email: ssimon@cfr.org
Ray Takeyh
Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran's Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, May 2009). Served as senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8432 Email: rtakeyh@cfr.org
Jared Cohen
Adjunct Fellow
Director of Google Ideas, Google Inc. Former member of the Policy Planning Staff under both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Terrorism; radicalization; impact of connection technologies on 21 st century statecraft; Iran.
Email: jacohen@cfr.org
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