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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
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.
Phone: +1-202-509-8476
Email: sbiddle@cfr.org
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). 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.
Phone: +1-212-434-9771
Email: icoleman@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
President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Pulitzer Prize-winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security. Author of the new book Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, March 2009).
U.S. foreign policy; national security; Russia; Persian Gulf.
Phone: +1-212-434-9742; for all media requests call +1-212-434-9460
Email: JZelmati@cfr.org
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 eleven books on U.S. foreign policy, including War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.
U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East
Phone: +1-212-434-9543; for all media requests, contact Lisa Shields at +1-212-434-9888 or lshields@cfr.org
Email: president@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
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author and journalist specializing in Middle East affairs and Islam. Currently working on a book about the future of Saudi Arabia and its implications for the United States.
Middle East history and politics; U.S. relations with Arab world; history and economy of Saudi Arabia; nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
Phone: +1.202.363.6796
Email: tlippman@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.
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 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 writing a book about the economy of Israel.
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
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
Philip D. Reed 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
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For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
smallaby@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org
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