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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
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
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 the future of U.S.-Egypt relations.
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
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Email: noah_feldman@harvard.edu
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department and policy adviser for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Working on a forthcoming book on the Middle East.
Iraq, Egypt, Kurdish issues, Middle East politics and political reform; terrorism and counterterrorism, international terrorism and security, insurgency and counterinsurgency.
Phone: +1.212.434.9625
Email: lkhalil@cfr.org
International Affairs Fellow in Residence
Former National Security Council official in the Bush and Obama administrations, focusing on U.S. policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently working on a book focused on U.S. policy in Iraq and the potential for a long-term strategic relationship between Iraq and the United States.
U.S. national security law and policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; complex international negotiations; constitutional law and constitutional theory.
Phone: +1.212.434.9644
Email: BMcGurk@cfr.org
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, released in October 2007. Author of a blog at The American Interest.
U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9548
Email: wmead@cfr.org
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
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
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
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
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
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
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
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