Michael Scott Doran
Michael Scott Doran | |
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| Born | April 25, 1962 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Stanford University(BA) Princeton University(PhD) |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Notable work | Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East(2016) |
Michael Scott Doran(born April 25, 1962) is an American analyst of theinternational politicsof theMiddle East.He is a senior fellow at theHudson Institute.He was previously a senior fellow at theSaban Center for Middle East Policyat theBrookings Institution.He has been avisiting professorat theRobert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public ServiceatNew York University.Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies atPrinceton Universityand taught at theUniversity of Central Florida.He was appointed to theNational Security Counciland was also deputy assistant secretary for public diplomacy at theU.S. Department of Defenseunder theGeorge W. Bush administration.Doran supported theinvasion of Iraq.[1]
Education
[edit]Doran received his PhD in Near Eastern studies fromPrinceton Universityin 1997. His PhD advisor wasL. Carl Brown.He attendedStanford University,graduating with a BA in history in 1984.
Academic career
[edit]Doran is senior fellow at theHudson Institute,[2]which he joined in 2014.[3]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, atNew 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 theU.S. Department of Defensein April 2007 after being the senior director for Near East and North African affairs at theNational Security Councilfrom 2005 to 2007. His teaching career began at theUniversity of Central Floridaand he later joined the Near East Studies Department atPrinceton Universityas assistant professor until he was appointed to the George W. Bush administration.
Advocacy of Azerbaijan
[edit]Doran has been criticized inThe American Conservativeas "one of the leadinghawkishcheerleaders for Azerbaijan "and encouraginganti-Armenian sentiment.[4]Iranian-American journalistSohrab Ahmarihas called Doran a "propagandist…cheering—an ongoing, current ethnic cleansing."[5]Michael Rubinof theAmerican Enterprise Institutedescribed him as "carrying water for the Azerbaijani regime."[6]
Casey Michel, head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at theHuman Rights Foundation,has criticized Doran's assertion that Azerbaijan under dictatorIlham Aliyevhas become a "bastion of diversity and tolerance", writing that that it was true "in the same way that, say,Franco's Spain,Pinochet's Chile,andMobutu'sZairewere also 'bastions of diversity and tolerance.' "[7]
Books
[edit]- Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question.1999. Oxford University Press.ISBN0195160088.
- "What Carter Owes Begin". InMenachem Begin's Zionist Legacy.2015. Koren Publishers.ISBN978-1592644155.
- Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East.2016. Free Press.ISBN978-1451697759.
References
[edit]- ^Croft, Stuart (2006).Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror.Cambridge University Press. p. 198.doi:10.1017/CBO9780511607356.ISBN9780521867993.Retrieved2020-01-06.
- ^"Experts Michael Doran".Hudson Institute.
- ^Institute, Hudson."Walter Russell Mead and Michael Doran Join Hudson Institute".www.prnewswire.com.
- ^"Why the U.S. Must Not Support Azerbaijan's War".The American Conservative.6 November 2020.Retrieved2021-10-05.
- ^Ahmari, Sohrab [@sohrabahmari](September 27, 2023)."Mike: because I'm not a hack propagandist like you, I've written about both sides' brutalities during the 1988-94 war…Meanwhile you're playing down—no, cheering—an ongoing, current ethnic cleansing"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^Rubin, Michael(2023-09-26)."Why Are Armenians Fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh?".American Enterprise Institute - AEI.Retrieved2023-10-02.
- ^Michel, Casey [@cjcmichel] (November 6, 2020)."Yes, Azerbaijan is a" bastion of diversity and tolerance "under Aliyev in the same way that, say, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, and Mobutu's Zaire were also" bastions of diversity and tolerance. "https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1324634494146650112"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
External links
[edit]| International | |
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| National | |
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- Middle Eastern studies scholars
- George W. Bush administration personnel
- 1962 births
- Living people
- American political scientists
- New York University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- Princeton University alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- United States National Security Council staffers
- Hudson Institute