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)
Occupation(s)Academic, lobbyist
Notable workIke'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. Doran said bin Laden, hoping that U.S. retaliation would unite the faithful against the West, sought to spark revolutions in Arab nations and elsewhere; the analyst argued that war with America was never the result, but was just a means to promote radical Islam.[1] Doran supported the invasion of Iraq.[2]

Education

Doran received his PhD 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 to 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.

Doran has been criticized in The American Conservative as "one of the leading hawkish cheerleaders for Azerbaijan" who allegedly encourages anti-Armenian sentiment.[5]

Books
  • Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question. 1999. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195160088.
  • "What Carter Owes Begin". In Menachem Begin's Zionist Legacy. 2015. Koren Publishers. ISBN 978-1592644155.
  • Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East. 2016. Free Press. ISBN 978-1451697759.

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. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511607356. ISBN 9780521867993. Retrieved 2020-01-06.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Experts Michael Doran". Hudson Institute.
  4. Institute, Hudson. "Walter Russell Mead and Michael Doran Join Hudson Institute". www.prnewswire.com.
  5. "Why the U.S. Must Not Support Azerbaijan's War". The American Conservative. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
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