ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
| Date | Appointment | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2016- | Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Institute of Technology Affiliate, Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy |
Atlanta, GA |
| 2010-16 | Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Institute of Technology |
Atlanta, GA |
| 2009-10 | Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2008-09 | Lecturer in Arab Politics, Crown Center for Middle East Studies Department of Politics, Brandeis University |
Waltham, MA |
EDUCATION
| Degree | School / University | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | University of California, Los Angeles (August 2009) Department of Political Science |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Visiting Graduate |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998-2000) Department of Political Science |
Jerusalem, Israel |
| Diploma | University of Oxford (1998) Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Oxford, England |
| M.A. | London School of Economics and Political Science (1997) Department of International History |
London, England |
| B.A. | University of California, Berkeley (1996) Department of History |
Berkeley, CA |
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
- The End of Strategic Stability? Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries (Georgetown University Press, 2018) co-edited with Adam Stulberg
- Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics (Stanford University Press, 2014)
- Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism (Routledge, 2011) co-edited with Rohan Gunaratna and Jolene Jerard
Articles in Peer Reviewed publications:
- “Saddam Hussein’s role in the gassing of Halabja” Non-Proliferation Review 28:3 (Fall 2021) with David Palkki
- “How Small States Acquire Status: A Social Network Analysis,” International Area Studies Review 21:3 (2018), 191-213 with Phillip Baxter and Jenna Jordan
- “The Ascendance of Official Islams,” Democracy and Security 13:4 (2018) with Michael Robbins
- “Islamic Political Activism among Israel’s Negev Bedouin Population,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 44:3 (2017)
- “Islamic Political Activism in Israel,” Center for Middle East Policy Analysis No. 32, Brookings Institution (April 2014)
- “The Rise of Official Islam in Jordan,” Politics, Religion, and Ideology 14:1 (Winter 2013) with Michael Robbins
- “Documenting Saddam Hussein’s Iraq,” Contemporary Security Policy 32:2 (Summer 2011).
- “Islam, Domestic Politics, and International Relations,” International Studies Review 13:1 (January 2011)
- “Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt,” Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 20, Issue 4, 2008 with Lisa Blaydes
Book chapters:
- “Conclusion,” with Adam Stulberg, in Emerging Technology and Strategic Stability (Routledge, Forthcoming, 2021), Eds. Neil Narang, Todd Sechser, and Caitlin Talmadge
- “Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Politics, Systemic Pressures, and the Impact on Foreign Policy since the Arab Spring” Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East (Forthcoming 2018) with Thomas Juneau, Steven Lobell, and Norrin Ripsman
- “Introduction” in The End of Strategic Stability? Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries (Georgetown University Press, 2018)
- “Conclusion” in The End of Strategic Stability? Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries (Georgetown University Press, 2018)
- “Introduction” with Rohan Gunaratna in Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism (Routledge, 2011)
- “Egypt’s Non-Kinetic Approaches to Counter-Terrorism in the 1990s” in Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism (Routledge, 2011)
- “Dealing with the Damage: How to Manage a Nuclear Iran,” 2007. In Debating 21st Century Nuclear Issues, eds. Owen Price and Jenifer Mackby (Washington D.C.: CSIS, 2007) with David Palkki
- “Egyptian Threat Perception of Iranian Nuclear Proliferation: A Regional Response?” Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington D.C.: CSIS, 2007)
Other publications:
- Editor of Special Issue, “Emerging Technology and National Security,” Orbis 64:4 (2020)
- “Quantum Sensing’s Potential Impacts on Strategic Deterrence and Modern Warfare” Orbis 65:3 (Spring 2021) with Sarah Jacobs Gamberini
- “National Security Implications of Emerging Satellite Technologies” with Mariel Borowitz and Brian Stewart, Orbis 64:4 (Fall 2020)
- “Great Power Competition Below the Line,” with Adam Stulberg and Dalton Lin, in Present and Future Challenges to Maintaining Balance Between Global Cooperation and Competition (Strategic Multilateral Assessment White Paper, 2020)
- “Jordan and Qatar restore diplomatic ties, but why now?” IISS Analysis, July 31, 2019
- “How States Foster Violent Extremism and What the United States Should Do About It,” Lawfare, June 16, 2019 with Nathaniel Allen and Michael Marcusa
- “How states can use ‘Official Islam’ to limit radical extremism,” The Washington Post, November 3, 2017
- “U.S. Foreign Policy in The Middle East amidst Regional Disorder and Entangled Alliances,” Working Paper, Sea Control and Foreign Policy, U.S. Naval War College 2017
- “How to give countering terrorism a fighting chance,” The National Interest, January 17, 2017, with Jenna Jordan and Margaret Kosal
- “The Strategic Illogic of Counterterrorism Policy,” The Washington Quarterly 39:4 (Winter 2017) with Jenna Jordan and Margaret Kosal.
- “An ISIS Containment Doctrine,” The National Interest, June 14, 2016 with Jenna Jordan
- “Why Israel Outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement,” Lawfare, December 7, 2015.
- “Why the Islamic State won’t become a normal state,” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, July 9, 2015 also published in Islam and International Order POMEPS Studies 15 (July 22, 2015).
- “How Jordan uses Islam against the Islamic State,” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, November 19, 2014
- “Who’s afraid of an ‘Islamic state’?” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, October 2, 2014
- “Islamic Political Activism in Israel,” Center for Middle East Policy Analysis No. 32, Brookings Institution (April 2014)
- “Another Mideast Battle Brews,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 21, 2011
- “A Typology of Soft Powers in Middle East Politics”, Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, December 2010
Book Reviews:
- Nathan Brown, When Victory is Not an Option (Cambridge 2009) in International Journal of Middle East Studies 45:3 (2013), 616-618.
- Rachel M. Scott “The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims in an Muslim State,” Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 45, No.1 (Summer 2011), 134-135
- “Religiously Challenged” A Review of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the secular state, from Christian Militias to Al-Qaeda, by Mark Juergensmeyer, Middle East Policy, Vol. 15, No.4, 2008
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| Date | Experience | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy | Washington, DC |
| 2008 | Associate Editor, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence | Atlanta, GA |
| 2010 | Consultant, Conflict Records Research Center National Defense University |
Washington, DC |
| 2006 | Adjunct Staff, RAND Corporation | Washington, DC |
| 2004 | Visiting Scholar National Defense University |
Washington, DC |
INVITED LECTURES
- “National Security Policy” American University, Washington DC, June 11, 2019
- “Fish out of water?” Texas A&M, College Station, April 9, 2019
- “End of Strategic Stability?” Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, Washington DC, April 4, 2019
- “Strategic Stability” NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, March 11, 2019
- “The Future of a Nuclear Middle East,” Council on Foreign Relations, New York, May 3, 2019
- “U.S. policy toward North Korea and Iran,” Council on Foreign Relations, Atlanta, GA, November 13, 2018
- “The End of Strategic Stability?” Ralph J. Bunche speaker series, United States Department of State, Washington DC, October 25, 2018
- “The Islamic Movement in Israel and The Struggle Over Jerusalem,” Symposium on Arab-Israeli Conflict. April 23, 2018, Augusta, Georgia
- “Bridging the Academic-Policy Divide,” New Era Foreign Policy Workshop, American University, March 13, 2018
- “Comparing Iraqi and Syrian uses of Chemical Weapons,” Defense Threat Reduction Agency, May 10, Ft. Belvoir, VA
- “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East amidst Regional Disorder and Entangled Alliances,” April 5, 2017, Naval War College Annual Symposium, Newport, RI
- “The Sykes-Picot Agreement and modern Middle East identities,” Fort Benning, GA, May 16, 2016
- “Balancing the Brotherhood: Regime Security in the post-Arab spring” Naval War College, Newport, RI, May 28, 2015
- “Balancing the Brotherhood and the crisis of ISIS,” Aarhus University, Denmark, May 7, 2015
- “The US War against ISIS,” NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy, March 9, 2015
- “Ideological Threats in Arab Politics,” University of Central Florida, September 29, 2014
- “Tailoring not Teetering: US foreign policy in the Arabian Gulf “ Patuxent Defense Forum, St. Marys City, MD, April 20, 2014
- “Islamic Awakening,” Georgia Council on International Visitors, Dunwoody, GA January 23, 2014
- “Arab threat perceptions of Iran’s nuclear program,” Public Policy and Nuclear Threats, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, August 18, 2013
- “Israeli Islamists or Islamist Israelis” Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1, 2013
- “Arab states and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East,” La Jolla, CA, University of California, San Diego, August 22, 2012
- “A Year after the Arab Spring: Old and New Fears,” Selinsgrove, PA, Susquehanna University, January 30, 2012
- “Politics and Protest in the Middle East,” Founders Day, Georgia Institute of Technology, March, 15, 2011
- “Threats and Opportunity in US-Egyptian Relations,” Morehouse College, February 14, 2011
- “Ideology and counter-terrorism,” Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1, 2011
- “Understanding Saudi Foreign Policy,” Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ottawa, Canada, May 11, 2010
- “Assessing US-EU Cooperation during the Bush Administration’s Global War on Terror,” Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Metropolitan University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, March 12, 2010
- “Ideology as a Counterterrorism Tool: Lessons from the Egyptian Experience,” Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, California, March 18, 2009
- “Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Lessons from Egypt,” International Conference on Terrorism Rehabilitation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, February 22, 2009
- “Power, Ideology, and Threat Perception: Why States Fear Islamist Regimes,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, October 8, 2008
- “Does Super Tuesday Really Matter for the Middle East?” National Security Fellows Program, UCSD, La Jolla, California, February 7, 2008
- “Partnership or Proliferation? US relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt,” Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, Monterrey, California, October 24, 2006
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- “Tribal Structures as Political Opportunity: Islamic Political Activism Among Israel’s Bedouin Population,” American Political Science Association, August 30, 2014, Washington, D.C.
- “Examining Islamic Political Activism in the Jewish State, “ March 27, 2014, International Studies Association, Toronto Canada
- “Neo-Classical Realism and Middle East Politics” March 30, 2014
- “The Islamic Movement in Israel”, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, November 17, 2012
- “Neo-praetorianism in Egypt?” International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 3, 2012
- “Fatwas and Foreign Policy” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL March 31, 2011
- “Energy Policy and Civilian Nuclear Policy in the Middle East,” Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, Washington DC, March 25, 2011
- “How Political Islam Affects Regime Policy,” with Michael Robbins, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, May 4, 2010, Cambridge, MA
- “Why States Fear Islamist Regimes: Threat Perception and Soft Power Politics,” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, November 30, 2009, Cambridge, MA
- “Understanding Egypt’s Nuclear Program,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, February 28, 2008
- “How to Manage a Nuclear Iran,” Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 23, 2007
- “Iran, Egypt, and Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East” presented at Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, conference on Public Policy and Nuclear Threats, January 19, 2007, Washington, D.C.
- “Rethinking Risks and Reassessing Rewards: US-Saudi and US-Egyptian relations” RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C., August 30, 2006
GRANTS AND AWARDS
| Grants | Date |
|---|---|
| Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellow, Stanton Nuclear Security | 2017-2018 |
| DTRA: Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (72K, Co-PI) | 2015-2016 |
| Israel Institute (10K) | 2013-2014 |
| Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech, Research Grant (20K) | 2013 |
| Project on Middle East Political Science (4K) | 2011 |
| Hollings Center for International Dialogue (Research Grant-US-Egypt relations) (10K) | 2010 |
| Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Post-doc (declined) | 2010-2011 |
| Schusterman Center for Israel Studies | 2009 |
| Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy (John L. Stanley Award) | 2008 |
| Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict Dissertation Year Fellowship | 2007-08 |
| Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic, Egypt) | 2004-06 |
| National Science Foundation-IGERT Fellowship, Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, “Public Policy and Nuclear Threats” |
2003-04 |
| Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic) | 2002-03 |
| Research Mentorship for the Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA | 2002 |
| Dorot Travel Grant (Israel) | 2001 |
| Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic, Morocco) | 2001 |
LANGUAGES AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING
- Modern Standard Arabic (Advanced proficiency)
- Hebrew (Fluent)
- Egyptian Dialect (Intermediate)
Arabic Programs:
| Language / Training | Date |
|---|---|
| Merkaz Fajr, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt | Spring, Winter 2006 |
| Merkaz Fajr, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt | Fall 2005 |
| Sana’a Institute for Arabic Language (SIAL), Sana’a, Yemen | Summer 2004 |
| American Language Institute Fes (ALIF), Fes, Morocco | Summer 2001 |
| UCLA | 2000-2005 |
| Nuclear Policy Training Program: Public Policy and Nuclear Threats | July 2003 |
Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, UCSD
Reviewer: International Security; Canadian Journal of Political Science; Politics, Religion and Ideology; Security Studies, Georgetown University Press; Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press; Cornell University Press; Ashgate Press, Rowman & Littlefield; Journal of Asymmetric Conflict, Korean Journal of International Studies (Editorial Board Member); World Politics, Middle East Journal, Routledge, Rowman&Littlefield