Alison Pargeter is a Research Fellow at the International Policy Institue, Kings College London. She has published widely on Libya...

Hassan Abbas served as the Sub-Divisional Police Chief in the NWFP from 1996-1998, and was the Deputy Director of Investigations in Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau from 1999-2000...

Sohail Abdul Nasir is an Islamabad-based journalist. He writes on foreign policy matters, regional security issues and the war on terrorism...

Mr. Abedin co-edited Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Actitives (2005). He is an expert on Iran, Iraq and Islamic movements and ideologies. Mr. Abedin makes contributions to numerous publications, including the Beirut-based Daily Star and Asia Times...

Zachary Abuza is one of the leading scholars on Terrorism in Southeast Asia. He is currently Associate Professor for Political Science and International Relations at Simmons College...

Mohammad Ahmad is an independent analyst based in Zarqa, Jordan...

Pete Ajemian recently completed graduate studies at the University of St. Andrews. He previously spent time living in Lebanon and has conducted research on terrorism related issues for US law enforcement...

Murad B. Al-Shishani is a Jordanian-Chechen writer. He has an M.A degree in Political Science specializing in Islamic Movements in Chechnya. He is also author of the book The Islamic Movement in Chechnya and the Chechen-Russian Conflict 1990-2000, Amman, 2001 (in Arabic)...

Fadhil Ali is a freelance journalist based in Iraq who specializes in Iraqi insurgent groups...

Farhana Ali is an Associate International Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation. She has done extensive research on jihadist networks and religious extremism...

Imtiaz Ali is a Pakistan-based journalist working as a special correspondent for the Washington Post. Before this he was a correspondent for the BBC Pashto Service for about six years. He joined the BBC in 2001, reporting on the U.S...

Anes Alic is the Executive Director of ISA Consulting, www.isaintel.com...

Feyza Altindag is a specialist in East European and Turkish affairs...

Giuseppe Anzera is Assistant Professor of Sociology of International Politics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome...

Tariq Mahmud Ashraf is a retired Air Commodore from the Pakistan Air Force. A freelance analyst on South Asian defense and nuclearization issues, he has authored one book and published over 70 papers and articles in journals of repute...

Scott Atran is a director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and Professor of anthropology and psychology at the University of Michigan...

Abdul Hameed Bakier is an intelligence expert on counter-terrorism, crisis management and terrorist-hostage negotiations. He also is an English-Arabic-Chechen translator. He is based in Jordan...

Edwin Bakker is on the editorial board of Helsinki Monitor and Vrede & Veiligheid, and secretary general of the executive committee of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee...

Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based freelance journalist. He writes a column for the Turkish Daily News and covers defense and security for the U.S. weekly Defense News. He also writes for other western publications...

Dr. Belokrenitsky is chair of the Near and Middle East Department, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Professor, Institute of International Relations, Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs...

Andrew Black is the Managing Director of Black Watch Global, an intelligence and risk management consultancy headquartered in Washington, DC...

Dr. Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department, or the U.S. Government...

Ludo Block is a former Dutch senior police officer and served as the Dutch police liaison officer for Russia and surrounding countries between 1999 and 2004. He is currently writing a PhD on police cooperation in the European Union...

Federico Bordonaro is a senior analyst with the Power and Interest News Report, an analytical organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. He holds a Ph.D...

Anneli Botha is a senior researcher on terrorism at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Cape Town...

Christopher Boucek is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University and a Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School...

Anouar Boukhars is a specialist on politics of the Muslim world. Dr. Boukhars is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Defense and Security Policy at Wilberforce University in Ohio. He is also editor of Wilberforce Quarterly Journal...

James Brandon is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion in London. He is a former journalist who has reported on Islamic issues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a wide variety of print and broadcast media...

James Briggs is an analyst based in Nigeria...

Rusen Cakir is a senior correspondent for the Turkish daily Vatan and has contributed to various other media outlets, such as Milliyet and CNN-Turk...

Mr. Carroll is a former officer in the Clandestine Service of the CIA and currently on the editorial board of the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin...

Peter Chalk is an analyst at RAND specializing in South East Asia, international terrorism and emerging threats...

Matthew Chebatoris is a freelance analyst and 12-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community...

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, PhD, is a Geographer and Research Fellow at CNRS (France). He specializes in the geopolitics of illicit drugs with a particular focus on Asia. He produces http://www.geopium.org...

Ian Conway manages Helios Global, Inc., an international security consultancy based in the Washington, DC area...

Gordon Corera is the BBC's Security Correspondent

Dr. Svante E. Cornell is Deputy Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Johns Hopkins University-SAIS...

Jeffrey Cozzens is Head of Areté Associates’ Terrorism Studies and Analysis Program, a research-based arm of Areté’s National Security Studies and Analysis Program, and is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence...

Dr. John C. K. Daly is a Eurasian foreign affairs and defense policy expert for The Jamestown Foundation based in Washington, D.C...

Sara Daly is an international policy analyst at RAND. Her research focuses primarily on international terrorism, insurgency, emerging threats, nuclear terrorism, and intelligence issues...

Chief Warrant Officer 4 (ret) Thomas S. Davidson II was a Senior Military Intelligence Analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He has extensive experience working on border and security issues...

Andrew Exum is a Soref fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on contemporary Middle Eastern insurgencies and counter-insurgency strategies. Mr. Exum served in the U.S. Army from 2000 to 2004, leaving active duty as a captain...

Christine Fair is the coordinator for South Asia research programs at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)

Ali Farassati obtained his Ph.D. in geopolitics from the University of Paris in France, and is a former professor of political science at Azad Islamic University of Iran. He currently resides in the United States...

Joseph Ferguson is currently at Princeton University. He was the director of Northeast Asia Studies at The National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle, Washington...

Mr. Benedict F. FitzGerald is an independent political-military consultant with nearly forty years of experience dealing with Middle Eastern, South Asian and Central Asian affairs. His career has included service with the U.S. military and intelligence communities, as well as in the private sector...

Gary C. Gambill, a political analyst for Freedom House and adjunct professor at College of Mount Saint Vincent, has published widely on Lebanese and Syrian affairs. He is the former editor of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin...

Khalil Gebara is a Lebanese researcher and holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Politics from the University of Exeter (UK)

Khwaja Geedar Khan lives in Peshawar and works for various Western humanitarian aid organizations...

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi is a Research Fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics...

Joshua Gleis is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and a PhD Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University...

Sebastian Gorka is Adjunct Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies Program on Terrorism and Security Studies and Executive Director of the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS)...

Audra K. Grant, PhD, is a political scientist at RAND. Her research focuses on the Middle East, and issues related to the development of political Islam, terrorism, as well as the attitudinal orientations of Middle East publics. Prior to joining RAND, she was an analyst at the U.S...

Madeleine Gruen is an intelligence analyst and a candidate for a master's degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs...

Olivier Guitta is a foreign affairs and counter-terrorism consultant in Washington DC and the founder of the newsletter The Croissant, located at http://www.thecroissant.com...

Michael M. Gunter is a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee and teaches during the summer at the International University in Vienna, Austria...

Ms. Haahr is a foreign affairs and counter-terrorism consultant in Washington, D.C...

Professor Ahmed S. Hashim is a leading authority on Middle Eastern, Central and South Asian security issues. A member of the United States Naval War College's strategic research department, Hashim recently returned from field research in Iraq...

Chris Heffelfinger is an independent researcher affiliated with the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is also the editor of Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities (Vol I and II, The Jamestown Foundation)...

Andrew Holt is a Southeast Asia analyst based in Los Angeles...

Frank Hyland served in the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency's Counter-Terrorist Center and the National Counter-Terrorism Center. He has been involved in counter-terrorism work for more than 25 years. Mr...

Sydney Irving is an independent journalist based in East Africa...

David Isby is a Washington-based author and defense and foreign policy analyst...

Noor Huda Ismail is a consultant on the impact of religion on political violence in Southeast Asia. Mr. Ismail has been doing extensive research on jihadist networks and religious extremism...

Dr. N. Janardhan is the editor of Gulf in the Media at the Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates...

Gareth Jenkins is a writer and journalist resident in Istanbul, where he has been based for the last 20 years...

John Jennings wrote extensively on Afghanistan from 1987-1994 for the Associated Press, the Economist and other publications. He returned to journalism in November 2001 to cover Afghanistan for the Washington Times and also worked as a Dari interpreter for BBC television...

Wilson John is a Senior Fellow with Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India...

Gregory D. Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...

Javier Jordán (PhD) is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Granada (Spain). He was a Research Fellow at the Training and Doctrine Command of the Spanish Army and a NATO Research Fellow. He is currently Editor in-Chief of JihadMonitor.org...

Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University...

Dr. Bernd Kaussler holds a MA and PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is currently Assistant Professor in Political Science at James Madison University. As Associate Fellow at the Institute for Iranian Studies at St...

Lydia Khalil recently returned from Iraq where she worked as governance policy advisor for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Prior to that, Lydia was appointed to the White House Office of Homeland Security. She has worked at home and abroad for the U.S...

Afzal Khan is a political and terrorism analyst of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. After many years as a Writer-Editor with the former U.S. Information Agency and as a Terrorism Editor for London-based Jane's Information Group, he is now a contractual writer for the U.S...

Massoud Khodabandeh is a former member of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, and mainly served in the organization's intelligence/security department. Khodabandeh left the Mojahedin in 1996 and currently lives in the north of England, where he works as a security consultant...

Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu teaches courses on international security and Turkish foreign policy in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey...

Victor Korgun is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and Chief of the Afghanistan Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

Panos A. Kostakos is Ph.D candidate and teaching associate in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath. His main research interest is the social embeddedment of organized crime and terrorist networks in the Balkans. He is fluent in Greek, English and French...

Asbed Kotchikian is a PhD candidate in political science at Boston University. His areas of interest include the post-Soviet South Caucasus and the Middle East, with a focus on foreign policy, political change and development...

Taras Kuzio is Visiting Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. His most recent books are Ukraine-Crimea-Russia. Triangle of Conflict and Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism: New Directions (both by Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007)...

Reuben Kyama is currently an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the Department of Journalism and Publishing at City University, London...

Kanchan Lakshman is a Research Fellow for the Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi...

Michael Lauber is CEO of the Liechtenstein Bankers' Association. From 2001 to 2004, he served as the Director of Liechenstein's Financial Intelligence Unit...

Matthew Levitt, a former FBI counterterrorism analyst, is a senior fellow and Director of Terrorism Studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...

Dr. Brynjar Lia is a research professor at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and the author of a forthcoming biography on Abu Mus'ab al-Suri entitled Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri (London: Hurst & Co Publisher, 2007). See www.hurstpub...

Mr. Lyons has spent several years as a counterterrorism analyst advising the American government...

Ramzy Mardini was Special Assistant on Iranian Studies at the Center for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan and a former Iraq Desk Officer for Political Affairs at the Department of State. He has also served within the Executive Office of the President...

Erich Marquardt is an independent researcher affiliated with the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He previously was the Program Manager of Global Terrorism Analysis at The Jamestown Foundation...

Omid Marzban has worked for Good Morning Afghanistan Radio Station and Radio Free Europe. He is based in Afghanistan...

Dr. Andrew McGregor is the director of Aberfoyle International Security in Toronto, Canada...

Roger N. McDermott is an honorary senior research associate, department of politics and international relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)...

Hayder Mili is an independent researcher specializing in terrorism and security issues in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Professor Georgiy Mirsky is a senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow...

Dr. Cerwyn Moore is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Birmingham...

Andrea Morigi is a journalist with the Italian daily Libero and the author of the book "Le Multinazionali del Terrore...

Dr. Sami Moubayed is a Syrian writer and political analyst. He is the author of many books on Syria including Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 (Cune Press 2005)...

Hussain Mousavi writes on the Middle East...

Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is most recently the author of "La Guerre D'apres," a book about Saudi Arabia published in France by Albin Michel Publishers...

Hamad Nazzal an in­de­pend­ent analyst-journalist who has extensive experience reporting from the Middle East for the U.S. government. He is a former writer for Middle Eastern TV Network and Radio Sawa...

Daniel Neep is an Associate Fellow with the Middle East & North Africa Programme at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies (RUSI)...

Judit Neurink is editor of the Middle East section at a Dutch daily. Neurink recently published a book on the Iranian terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, entitled “Misled Martyrs...

Tarique Niazi teaches Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He specializes in Resource-based Conflicts. He may be reached via email: niazit@uwec...

Magnus Norell, PhD is Director of the Center for the Study of Low-intensity Conflicts and Terrorism (CLIENT) and a Senior Analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency...

Dr. Evgenii Novikov, an expert on Islam and on the politics and economics of the Persian Gulf region. Born in Kyrgyzstan of Russian parents, Dr...

Fredrick Nzwili is a journalist writing on political, social and religious developments from Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Most of his writing involves attempts at providing the religious dimension of new developments. He is a graduate of Sociology and Literature from the University of Nairobi...

Brian O'Neill is an independent political analyst based out of Chicago, and is a former reporter for the Yemen Observer...

Guido Olimpio is security correspondent for Corriere della Sera and has been a researcher on international terrorism for the past 20 years...

Shaun Overton is an independent analyst specializing in the Arab World. He has just returned from nine months of research in Yemen...

Raffaello Pantucci is a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He is also the London correspondent for HS Today, a magazine looking at Homeland Security issues (www.hstoday...

Alison Pargeter is a Research Fellow at the International Policy Institue, Kings College London...

Carlos Mauricio Pineda Cruz, a former Salvadoran Diplomat who has been posted in Venezuela and Mexico, is currently studying at Oxford University’s Latin American Center...

Jeffrey Pool is a freelance consultant, specializing in security and terrorism issues in the Middle East. He is a former U.S. Army linguist, having received his diploma in Arabic from the Defense Language Institute in 1996...

Dr. Geoff D. Porter is the North Africa analyst with Eurasia Group, a consulting firm that advises corporate, financial services and government clients on political risks in emerging markets...

Chris Quillen is a former analyst in the Counter-Terrorist Center at the Central Intelligence Agency...

Babak Rahimi received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Dr. Rahimi has also studied at the University of Nottingham and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK...

Waliullah Rahmani is the Executive Director of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies (KCSS), a newly established Kabul-based think-tank that provides analysis and research from the Afghan perspective on the region with Afghanistan as its primary focus. Mr...

Kent Regens is a Financial Consultant with RBC Dain Rauscher. He attended the University of Edinburgh where he received an MSc in International and European Politics in 2005...

Thomas Renard is a Washington-based freelance writer, specializing in terrorism and insurgencies. He is a frequent contributor to Terrorism Focus and Terrorism Monitor and an occasional collaborator with Le Soir, the main French-speaking newspaper in Belgium...

David Romano is an assistant professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. He is the author of "The Kurdish Nationalist Movement" (2006, Cambridge University Press), in addition to numerous articles on Middle East politics, the Kurdish issue, forced migration, and globalization...

Jonathan Ross-Harrington is an analyst for the Intelligence and Terrorism Analysis Group at Applied Marine Technologies Inc (AMTI) and a specialist in Asia-Pacific security and counter-terrorism. He was formerly with the Center for Study for Terrorism and Political Violence at St...

Igor Rotar is Central Asia correspondent for Forum 18 News Service

Animesh Roul is the Executive Director of Research at the New Delhi-based Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict (SSPC)...

Giray Sadik is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Georgia. His research interests include U.S.-Turkish relations, transatlantic relations, foreign policy-domestic politics interaction, public opinion, and international counter-terrorism cooperation...

Syed Saleem Shahzad is the Karachi bureau chief for Asia Times...

Julie Sawyer is a Research Assistant at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...

Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years before resigning in 2004. He served as the Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999...

Charles Schmitz is a specialist on Yemen and Arab political economy at Towson University, Baltimore, MD...

Stephen Schwartz is a frequent commentator on terrorism and related issues in national periodicals and websites. He is also the author of nine books on political history, the most recent being The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror (Doubleday Anchor paperback)...

Dr. Andrew Scobell is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He was previously Associate Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S...

Mohammad Shehzad is an independent researcher in Pakistan with years of experience reporting on jihadi groups...

Sharif Shuja is Research Associate in the Global Terrorism Research Unit at Monash University in Australia...

Pascale Combelles Siegel is a Virginia-based independent defense consultant specializing in perception management...

Julie Sirrs was the editor of the Terrorism Monitor. Prior to that, she was an analyst focusing on Central and South Asia for the Defense Intelligence Agency...

John Solomon is Head of Terrorism Research for World-Check, a provider of structured risk-related intelligence. He was formerly with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland...

Trevor Stanley researches Islamic terrorism. He is the Editor of Perspectives on World History and Current Events

Dr. Ian Storey is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore...

Mr. Swift is a doctoral candidate in the Center of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His current research interests include the evolution of asymmetric warfare and the relationships between subnational and transnational Islamic insurgencies. Mr...

Dr. Sykiyanen is a professor at the Institute of State and Law at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow...

Michael Taarnby is a research fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies with a specialization in political and militant Islamism...

Muhammad Tahir is a Prague-based journalist and analyst, specializing in Afghan/Iran and Central Asian affairs, and is author of Illegal Dating: A Journey into the Private Life of Iran...

Tiina Tarvainen is a researcher at the Research Group for Conflicts and Terrorism at the University of Turku, Finland...

Donald Temple is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation specializing in national security...

Igor Torbakov is a freelance journalist and researcher who specializes in CIS political affairs. He holds an MA in History from Moscow State University and a PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences...

Jacob Townsend is a research analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and has been a consultant on border control to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

Paul Tumelty is a researcher specializing in the Russian North Caucasus, the Caucasus and Central Asia. He holds an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow and a BA War Studies, King's College, London...

Stephen Ulph is a Senior Fellow with The Jamestown Foundation. One of the preeminent analysts of the Islamic world, Mr. Ulph specializes in the economic and political developments of the Middle East and North Africa...

Anar Valiyev is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Social Studies in Masaryk University at Brno, Czech Republic. His areas of interest include urban terrorism, public policy of post-Soviet countries, governance and democracy...

Daan van der Schriek is a freelance journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has covered Central Asia and the Caucasus for several years. He holds an MASc in Central Asian Politics from SOAS in London and an MA in Russian and Russian Studies at the University of Amsterdam...

Dr. Alexei Vassiliev is Director of the Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences...

Lorenzo Vidino is an analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Jebsen Center at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of the book, "Al-Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad" (Prometheus Books)...

Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and editor of the Iraq website http://www.historiae.org...

Eric Watkins, who writes on oil, shipping and terrorism, is the first Western person ever allowed to reside in Yemen as a foreign correspondent. Altogether, he lived some 20 years in the Red Sea region, including Saudi Arabia (1981-88), Yemen (1989-94) and Cyprus (2000-04)...

Carl Anthony Wege is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Coastal Georgia Community College in Brunswick, Georgia. He has published articles on the Abu Nidal Organization, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, Hezbollah and Syrian and Iranian Intelligence Organizations...

Bestman Wellington is a Nigerian journalist, a small arms researcher and an analyst based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in the Niger Delta...

Robert Wesley is a terrorism analyst specializing in emerging trends in Islamist militancy and weapons of mass destruction...

Sunguta West is an independent journalist based in Nairobi...

Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is assistant professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth...

Cathy Young is a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth...

Michael Young is opinion editor at the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon, and a contributing editor at Reason magazine in the U.S...

Rahimullah Yusufzai is Resident Editor of The News International, a daily newspaper in Peshawar...

Chris Zambelis is an associate with Helios Global, Inc., an international political and security risk analysis and management firm based in the Washington, DC area. He specializes in Middle East politics...

Catherine Zara Raymond is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...

Dr. Sherifa Zuhur is Research Professor of Islamic and Regional Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. She is also the Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Diasporic Studies...

Dr. Nihat Ali Özcan is a security policy analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) and a lecturer at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara. He is an expert on the Turkish military and the PKK...