Christopher A. Kojm is a Visiting Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of international Affairs at George Washington University. He served as Chairman of the National ...

Joel Brenner is a senior research fellow and lecturer in MIT’s Security Studies Program. He was the head of U.S. counterintelligence policy under the first three directors of national intelligence and is...

Dr. Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is the Research Director of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University. Prior to joining the Program on Extremism, Dr. Meleagrou-Hitchens was the Head ...

Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is author of "Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes."

Devin Pendas is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law and co-editor of Political Tria...

April Doss chairs the Cybersecurity and Privacy practice at Saul Ewing, and is the former Associate General Counsel for Intelligence Law at NSA. [The views expressed here are the author’s and not those o...

Randa Slim is Director of the Track II Dialogues Initiative at the Middle East Institute and Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Stud...

Paul Salem is the Vice President for Policy and Research at the Middle East Institute.

Jennifer M. Harris is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, Harris was a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she was respon...

Stefan Heumann is member of the management board at the Berlin based Think Tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV). During the past years he worked on building and establishing SNV’s focus on issues at th...

Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian author and pro-democracy activist currently based in Silver Spring, Maryland where he arrived with his family as political refugees in September 2005. His recent book, "The I...

Dr. Ed Bates is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leicester. He is the author of The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-author o...

Yuri Zhukov is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Faculty Associate with the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. His r...

Noha Aboueldahab is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. Her research focus is on transitional justice in the Arab region. In particular, she examines the factors that triggered, drove and sha...