Alan Cullison is the 2025–26 Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on Russia and Eurasia, and Islamist movements in South Asia and the Middle East. At CFR, he will be researching the history of Russia’s ideological pull in the West and the evolution of U.S. foreign policy in the Donald Trump era. For thirty years he was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, mostly serving in its foreign department as a Moscow-based correspondent covering the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan, and more recently as a national security reporter based in Washington, DC. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Russia and Afghanistan and won the top Overseas Press Club award for reporting from Afghanistan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Chicago and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.