Authors

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  • Dinshaw Mistry
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
    Former Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for International Affairs, International Security Program, 2001-2002.
  • Scott Modell
    Senior Associate, Burke Chair In Strategy

    Scott Modell is currently a senior adviser to U.S. Special Operations Command on counter-threat finance issues related to Middle Eastern terrorist groups and state sponsors of terrorism.

  • Evan Braden Montgomery
    Research Fellow at CSBA
  • Alireza Nader
    Senior international policy analyst at RAND

    Alireza Nader is a senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and author of The Days After a Deal With Iran: Continuity and Change in Iranian Foreign Policy. His research has focused on Iran's political dynamics, elite decisionmaking, and Iranian foreign policy.

  • Richard Nephew
    Program director at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

    Richard Nephew is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program and affiliated with the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative housed within the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. He is also a research scholar and program director at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. During his career, Nephew served as the principal deputy coordinator for sanctions policy at the U.S. State Department and director for Iran at the National Security Council. 

  • Mary Ellen O'Connell
    Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at University of Notre Dame College of Law.
  • Michael E. O'Hanlon
    Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative
    Michael O’Hanlon specializes in national security and defense policy and is senior author of the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Index projects.
  • David Ochmanek
    David Ochmanek is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation. He has been associated with RAND from 1985 until 1993, and again since 1995. While at RAND, he has worked on assessments of the capabilities of U.S. conventional and strategic nuclear forces, arms control, defense planning, regional security, and national security strategy. From 1993 until June 1995, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy.
  • Trita Parsi
    Founder and president of the National Iranian American Council

    Trita Parsi is the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign politics, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He recently wrote A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (Yale University Press, 2012)

  • Keith B. Payne
    Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
    Keith B. Payne, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, is now professor and department head of the graduate school of defense and strategic studies, Missouri State University.
  • George Perkovich
    Vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peac

    George Perkovich is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.

  • Thomas R. Pickering
  • Paul Pillar
    Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University
    Paul Pillar teaches in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and was the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asisa from 2000 to 2005.
  • Walter Pincus
    National security staff reporter for the Washington Post.
  • Norman Podhoretz
    Editor-at-large of Commentary magazine.
  • Kenneth M. Pollack
    Senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution

    Kenneth M. Pollack is an expert on Middle Eastern political-military affairs, with particular emphasis on Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the other nations of the Persian Gulf region. He is currently a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He served as the director of the Center from 2009 to 2012, and its director of research from 2002 to 2009.

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