A Washington-based global affairs analyst, journalist, columnist, blogger, author, lecturer, and consultant focusing on the way geo-strategic and geo-economic developments affect international diplomacy and commerce.
Formerly a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute; the Washington correspondent for the Business Times of Singapore; and the New York/United Nations bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post, I am currently a senior analyst with Wikistrat, a geo-strategic consulting firm and contribute regularly to the Huffington Post, the National Interest, the Asia Times, Ha'aretz (Israel) and the American Conservative. I have published in many American and international newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and have been affiliated as a researcher and a lecturer with several think tanks and academic institutions.
I authored "Quagmire: America in the Middle East" (Cato Institute, 1992) and "Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
I have a Ph.D. in international relations from American University in Washington, DC, and graduated from Columbia University in NYC with MA degrees from the schools of journalism and international affairs and a certificate from the Middle East Institute. I also graduated with an MA degree in communication and received a BA degree in political science from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
