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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Daniel L. Byman
Daniel Byman focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He also directs Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies.
See also Kenneth M. Pollack, co-author of Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War.
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Norman Friedman
Norman Friedman is an internationally known strategist and naval historian living in New York City. A monthly columnist for Proceedings magazine, he is the author of twenty-eight books, including the recent award-winning Seapower as Strategy and The Fifty-Year War.
Contact
Publicist: Susan Artigiani
Email: sartigiani at usni.org
Phone: 410-295-1081
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is a novelist, poet, journalist, and Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of Nobody Does the Right Thing: A Novel, also published by Duke University Press; Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice” selection; Bombay—London—New York, a New Statesman (UK) “Book of the Year” selection; and Passport Photos. He is the editor of several books, including Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate, The Humour and the Pity: Essays on V. S. Naipaul, and World Bank Literature. He is also an editor of the online journal Politics and Culture and the screenwriter and narrator of the prize-winning documentary film Pure Chutney. Kumar’s writing has appeared in the Nation, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, American Prospect, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Hindu, and other publications in North America and India.
Contact
Email: amkumar at vassar.edu
Assaf Moghadam
Assaf Moghadam is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
Contact
Email: assafm at hotmail.com
Kenneth M. Pollack
Kenneth 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.
See also Daniel L. Byman, co-author of Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War.
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Rafael Reuveny
Rafael Reuveny is Professor of Political Economy at Indiana University. His books include Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System: Complex Transformations.
See also William Thompson, co-editor of Coping with Terrorism.
Contact
Publicist: Fran Keneston
518-472-5000 or fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Kent Roach
Kent Roach is a professor of law at the University of Toronto, where he
holds the Prichard-Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002. The author of eleven books,
Roach is a member of the International Task Force on Terrorism, Democracy
and the Law. He has served with the Commission of Inquiries into both Maher
Arar and the Bombing of Air India Flight 182.
Contact
Publicist: Nicole Villeneuve, Cambridge University Press,
212-337-6567 or nvilleneuve at cambridge.org
Zachary Shore
Zachary Shore is an associate professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State through a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his doctorate in modern European history from Oxford University and served as a national security fellow at Harvard's Institute for Strategic Studies. http://www.zacharyshore.com/biography/
Contact
Email: zshore at gmail.com
Mark Sidel
Mark Sidel is Professor of Law and Faculty Scholar at the University of Iowa and a research scholar at the University's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. His research and writing focus on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector; law and development; and comparative law with an emphasis on Asia. He is the author of More Secure, Less Free. Sidel proposed and subsequently organized the compilation of the Books for Understanding: The Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy bibliography.
Sidel has also taught Vietnamese and Chinese law at Harvard Law School (1998). He served as the W.G. Hart Lecturer in Law at the Law Faculty of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in 2003, and as visiting professor of Asian law in the chaire Asie at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Centre d'Etudes et de Reserches Internationales in 2004. Before assuming his current position, Professor Sidel managed the regional program on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector for the Ford Foundation in South Asia (New Delhi, 1999-2000). He directed Ford Foundation programs in Vietnam (1992-1995), and earlier worked in the Foundation's Beijing office. Professor Sidel has published extensively on philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, civil society, law and development, and comparative law in Asia.
Contact
Email: mark-sidel at uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-384-4640
Jordan Tama
Tama is Assistant Professor at American University’s School of
International Service and Research Fellow at AU’s Center for Congressional
and Presidential Studies. He served as a member of the Intelligence and
Counterterrorism Expert Advisory Groups for Barack Obama’s 2008
presidential campaign and as a contributor to the Princeton Project on
National Security. He has been published in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Hill, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and International Affairs Review,
among others.
Contact
Publicist: Nicole Villeneuve, Cambridge University Press,
212-337-6567 or nvilleneuve at cambridge.org
William R. Thompson
William R. Thompson is Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. His many books include Causes of War.
See also Rafael Reuveny, co-editor of Coping with Terrorism.
Contact
Publicist: Fran Keneston
518-472-5000 or fran.keneston at sunypress.edu
Steve A. Yetiv
Dr. Steve A. Yetiv is University Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University. Dr. Yetiv's research explores American foreign policy and decision making toward the Middle East, global energy, globalization, and theories of foreign policy and international relations.
Contact
Email: syetiv at odu.edu
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