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Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
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Daniel Byman is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center. He is Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and an associate professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has held positions with the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (the "9/11 Commission"), the Joint 9/11 Inquiry and Senate Intelligence Committees, the RAND Corporation, and the U.S. government. He writes widely on issues related to U.S. national security, terrorism, and the Middle East. His latest book is Deadly Connections: State Sponsorship of Terrorism.
For more information, visit Daniel Byman at Brookings.
Expertise:Middle East security; terrorism
Experience:Current Positions
Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foriegn Service, Georgetown University (2003-present)
Past Positions
Staff Member, 9/11 Commission; Professional Staff Member, Joint 9/11 Inquiry, U.S. House and Senate Intelligence Committees (2001-2002); Policy Analyst and Director for Research, Center for Middle East Public Policy, The RAND Corporation (1997-2002); Political Analyst, U.S. Government (1990-1993)
May 29, 2008
Interview
Counterterrorism expert Daniel L. Byman says Hezbollah is "the most powerful single political movement in Lebanon" and remains a potent guerrilla force.
See more in Lebanon, Syria, Society and Culture, Terrorist Organizations
April 17, 2008
Other Report
Daniel Byman traveled to Israel and Jordan in March -- a time of crisis in the Middle East. During Byman's trip, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets against the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon, an attack occurred in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Israel took retaliatory measures in the Gaza Strip. In both Israel and Jordan, Byman found that the predominant mood was one of frustration and gloom. Israelis felt trapped between their sense that inaction would encourage more violence and their recognition that the military and political options looked unpromising. Jordanians fretted that the Israeli reaction to the violence would strengthen the radicals politically.
See more in Middle East, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
January 2007
Must Read
The Brookings Institution says that ‘with each passing day, Iraq sinks deeper into the abyss of civil war.’ It considers how the United States could stop the slide into all-out war, and what actions the US should take if it becomes clear that Iraq cannot be saved from such a conflict. The report considers the history of civil wars in the recent past, and draws a set of lessons regarding how civil wars can affect the interests of other countries, even distant ones like the United States, and then used those lessons to fashion a set of recommendations for how Washington might begin to develop a new strategy for an Iraq caught up in all-out civil war.
See more in Iraq, Conflict Prevention
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