Michael Scott Doran

Michael Doran (born April 25, 1962) is an American analyst of the international politics of the Middle East. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has been a visiting professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and taught at the University of Central Florida. He was appointed to the National Security Council and was also Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of Defense under the George W. Bush administration.

Michael Doran
Born (1962-04-25) April 25, 1962
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Occupationacademic, analyst
Notable work
Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (2016)

In a Foreign Affairs article, "Somebody Else's Civil War," he argued that the September 11 attacks were part of a religious conflict within the Muslim world. Hoping that U.S. retaliation would unite the faithful against the West, Doran said bin Laden sought to spark revolutions in Arab nations and elsewhere—arguing war with America was never his end; it was just a means to promote radical Islam.[1] Doran supported the invasion of Iraq.[2]

Education

Doran received his Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1997. His PhD advisor was L. Carl Brown. He attended Stanford University, graduating with a BA in History in 1984.

Career

Doran is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute,[3] which he joined in 2014.[4] Before that, he was a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Politics at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor, at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service. Before returning to academia, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of Defense in April 2007 after being the Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs at the National Security Council from 2005–2007. His teaching career began at the University of Central Florida and he later joined the Near East Studies Department at Princeton University as Assistant Professor until he was appointed to the George W. Bush administration.

He has served as Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a scholar with the Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) project of the National Security Studies Program at Harvard University. He is a frequent book reviewer for the Washington Post.

Books and articles written
  • Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question. 1999. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516008-8.
  • "Two Turkish Tales", The Washington Post, 9 July 2000.[5]
  • "Somebody Else's Civil War". Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002.
  • "Palestine, Iraq and American Strategy", Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003.[6]
  • "The Saudi Paradox", Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004.[7]
  • "Intimate Enemies", The Washington Post, 18 February 2004.[8]
  • "What Carter Owes Begin". In Menachem Begin’s Zionist Legacy. 2015. Koren Publishers. ISBN 9781592644155.
  • Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East. 2016. Free Press. ISBN 9781451697759.
  • "The Real Collusion Story", National Review, 13 March 2018.[9]
  • "The Anti-Trump Conservative Firing Circle Is Wildly Out Of Touch With The American Electorate", The Federalist, 10 July 2018.[10]

References
  1. Michael Scott Doran. "Somebody Else's Civil War". Foreign Affairs (January/February 2002). Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  2. Croft, Stuart (2006). "Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror". Cambridge University Press. p. 198. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  3. "Experts - Michael Doran - Hudson Institute". www.hudson.org.
  4. Institute, Hudson. "Walter Russell Mead and Michael Doran Join Hudson Institute". www.prnewswire.com.
  5. Doran, Michael (9 July 2000). "Two Turkish Tales". Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  6. "Palestine, Iraq and American Strategy". Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  7. "The Saudi Paradox". Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  8. Doran, Michael S. (18 February 2004). "Intimate Enemies". Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  9. Doran, Michael (13 March 2018). "The Real Collusion Story". Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  10. Doran, Michael (10 July 2018). "The Anti-Trump Conservative Firing Circle Is Wildly Out Of Touch With The American Electorate". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
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