Daniel Senor
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
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
Programs
Middle East Program
Featured Publications
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.
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Daniel Senor states, "New York's special congressional election on Tuesday was the first electoral outcome directly affected by President Obama's Israel policy."
See more in United States, Middle East, Israel, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
Dan Senor and Roman Martinez discuss Donald Rumsfeld's memoir, Known and Unknown.
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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
Daniel Senor argues that plans to locate a mosque near Ground Zero undermine the goal of interfaith understanding.
See more in United States, Religion
Daniel Senor and Saul Singer discuss Israel's role as a global innovation leader.
See more in Israel, Economic Development, Technology Transfer
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
Dan Senor and Saul Singer write "Israel has thrived during the global collapse - thanks to an entrepreneurial culture built on compulsory military service."
See more in Israel, Economics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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