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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.
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Dan Byman focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He also directs Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies.
For more information, visit: Dan Byman at Brookings.
Middle East security; terrorism
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House, 2008). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program.
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.
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.
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 ten books on U.S. foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course.
U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East
Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Martin Indyk is the Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Ambassador to Israel and assistant secretary of state for near east affairs during the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk directs the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. He currently focuses on the Clinton administration’s diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
For more information, visit: Martin Indyk at Brookings.
Arab-Israeli conflict; Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf; Algeria, Libya, and North Africa
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.
For more information, visit: Suzanne Maloney at Brookings.
Iran and Gulf States; energy; economic reform
Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
Ken Pollack is an expert on national security, military affairs and the Persian Gulf. He was Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. He also spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst.
For more information, visit: Ken Pollack at Brookings.
Middle East; Military and security affairs; Persian Gulf
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
A former CIA officer, Bruce Riedel focuses on political transition, terrorism and conflict resolution. He was a senior advisor to three U.S. presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues.
For more information, visit: Bruce Riedel at Brookings.
Counter-terrorism; Arab-Israeli issues; Persian Gulf security; India and Pakistan
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Former senior director for nonproliferation and export controls at the National Security Council and editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
Nuclear proliferation and arms control, especially in the Middle East and Asia
Hasib J. Sabbagh 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.
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World (forthcoming). Recently completed Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, which examines the complexities of Iranian politics and its relationship with its regional counterparts and with the United States.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Shibley Telhami is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center. He is Anwar Sadat Professor at the University of Maryland and author of The Stakes: America and the Middle East (2002). His many other publications on Middle East politics include Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990). His current research focuses on the media’s role in shaping Middle Eastern political identity and the sources of ideas about U.S. policy in the region.
For more information, please follow this link: Shibley Telhami at Brookings.
Arab-Israeli conflict; ethnic conflict; international negotiations; media and political identity; Palestinian and Israeli politics; Persian Gulf politics; U.S. policy in the Middle East
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
An expert on Middle East affairs, Tamara Cofman Wittes focuses on U.S. efforts to promote democracy and the Arab-Israeli peace process. She has directed several Middle East research projects, including the Middle East Democracy and Development Project at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
For more information, visit: Tamara Cofman Wittes at Brookings.
Arab-Israeli relations; Arab politics; Culture and conflict resolution; Political reform in the Arab world; U.S. Middle East Policy
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