Interests

U.S. foreign and security policy; counterterrorism and democracy promotion; the Levant, Central Asia, and South Asia; the role of Congress in American foreign policymaking; American relations with China, Russia, and Mexico.

Current Projects

The role of Congress in U.S. post-Cold War China and Russia policy; strategic planning processes in the Policy Planning Staff, National Intelligence Council, NSC, and Office of Net Assessment; U.S. counter-terrorism and democracy promotion efforts; prospects for democracy in Pakistan, Iran, and the Palestinian Territories; the history of Islãmic communities in the United States, Britain, and France; the evolution of the discussion of raison d’etat in the 20^th century.

Education

D. Phil. Candidate, Trinity College , Oxford; M.A. Candidate, Yale University (1998-2000); Fulbright Scholar (1999); B.A., University of Notre Dame (1998, triple major and minor).

Background

Researcher, Council on Foreign Relations and Yale Law School; U.S. Mission to Nato (Brussels); Congressional Aide (Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Charles S. Robb); Visiting Research Fellow, University of Guanajuato (Mexico).

Selected

Publications

· “In the Way of the Prophet: Institutions and Ideologies in a U.S. Islamic Community,” The New American City, autumn 2003.

· “Encyclopedia of National Missile Defense,” Council on Foreign Relations, 2002.

· “Janie Flores and the Children Who Pick Our Grapes,” Peace Review, September 2000.

· Daily writing on www.oxblog.com.

Last updated March 5, 2004