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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact Info:
Phone: +1.212.933.9973
E-mail: dsenor@cfr.org
Location:
New York, NY
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One-page bio (PDF, 52K)
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.
Expertise:
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.
Honors:U.S. Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award.
Selected Publications:Time: "Obama's Three-Part Case on Iran" (June 20, 2009); Wall Street Journal: "Five Ways Obama Could Promote Freedom in Iran" (June 17, 2009); "Whatever Happened to Moqtada?" (March 20, 2008); "The Long Arm of Iran" (September 29, 2007); "Iraq's Hezbollah" (July 27, 2006); "Make the President Prime Minister" (March 23, 2006); "Realists on Iraq" (June 5, 2007); "Dynamic Ideas for Iraq" (January 5, 2007); New York Times: "Too Few Good Men" November 17, 2005); The Weekly Standard: "Shooting to Kill" (Book review, August 14, 2006); "Saddam Hussein: On Trial" (September 29, 2005); Washington Post: "The Realities of Trying to Rebuild Iraq"(October 10, 2006).
Current Research Projects
August 23, 2010
Expert Roundup
Five experts address the controversy over the proposed Islamic center near the 9/11 attack site in New York, the foreign policy implications, and how the issue should be resolved.
See more in United States, Religion
August 3, 2010
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Daniel Senor argues that plans to locate a mosque near Ground Zero undermine the goal of interfaith understanding.
See more in United States, Religion
Summer 2010
Article
Wilson Quarterly
Daniel Senor and Saul Singer discuss Israel's role as a global innovation leader.
See more in Israel, Economic Development, Technology Transfer
March 18, 2010
Expert Roundup
CFR experts assess the causes for the U.S.-Israeli divisions over the settlements issue, citing everything from diplomatic bungling to Obama administration aims to destabilize the Israeli coalition.
See more in United States, Israel, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 8, 2009
Audio
Listen to Daniel Senor, adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies, discuss his new book, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.
See more in Israel, Economic Development
October 25, 2009
Op-Ed
The Daily Beast
Dan Senor and Saul Singer write "Israel has thrived during the global collapse - thanks to an entrepreneurial culture built on compulsory military service."
November 2009
Book
Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel--a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies--produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation's adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
See more in Israel, Business and Foreign Policy
September 3, 2009
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Regarding the war in Afghanistan, Daniel Senor and Peter Wehner argue, "Republicans should never do to President Obama what many Democrats did to President Bush."
See more in Afghanistan, Wars and Warfare, U.S. Strategy and Politics
July 21, 2009
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Daniel Senor argues, "there is pressure building within the Pentagon to cut forces in Iraq even faster than planned to send more troops to Afghanistan."
See more in Iraq, Natural Resources Management
June 24, 2009, New York.
Transcript
Boris Nemtsov discusses the future of Russia's political opposition and the prospects for a robust democracy.
See more in Russian Fed., Democracy and Human Rights
June 20, 2009
Op-Ed
Time Magazine
Daniel Senor and Christian Whiton argue that President Obama must "consider that more than two-thirds of Iran's population is under thirty years of age and was born after the 1979 revolution."
See more in Iran, Global Governance, International Peace and Security
June 17, 2009
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Daniel Senor and Christian Whiton argue that the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine can serve as a model for democratic reform in Iran.
See more in Ukraine, Iran, Democracy and Human Rights, Elections
December 29, 2008
Audio
Listen to CFR Middle East experts Steven A. Cook and Daniel Senor discuss the implications of the recent surge in violence in the Gaza strip.
See more in Middle East, Conflict Prevention, Diplomacy
December 29, 2008
Transcript
A Council on Foreign Relations conference call.
See more in Israel, Wars and Warfare
September 9, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Daniel Senor focuses on Sen. Joseph Biden's plan for segregation of Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines.
See more in Iraq, Nation Building, U.S. Election 2008
July 23, 2008
Interview
Daniel Senor, a former foreign policy adviser for the Bush administration, says Sen. Barack Obama's trip to Iraq and Afghanistan produced a mix of risks and benefits.
See more in Middle East, U.S. Election 2008
July 17, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Congressional delegations can be illuminating despite the obvious limitations imposed by time and security concerns, writes Daniel Senor, giving Barack Obama a list of people he ought to meet on his upcoming trip to Iraq.
See more in Iraq, Conflict Assessment
CFR experts give their take on the cutting-edge issues emerging in Asia today.
Read the Blog Asia Unbound
Michael Levi examines the science and foreign policy surrounding climate change, energy, and nuclear security. Read the Blog
Explore the global health regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Explore the past, present, and future of nuclear energy with this new online interactive.
Micah Zenko examines the discrete military operations undertaken by the United States over the past twenty years to discern why they were used, if they achieved their objectives, and what determined their success or failure.
Sebastian Mallaby has written the first authoritative history of hedge funds—from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.
Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks—a story about the seductions of success.
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