Michael Scott 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. Doran supported the invasion of Iraq.[1]
Michael Scott Doran | |
|---|---|
| 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) |
Education
editDoran 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.
Academic career
editDoran is senior fellow at the Hudson 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, 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 as historian of the Modern Middle East 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.
Advocacy of Azerbaijan
editDoran has been criticized in The American Conservative as "one of the leading hawkish cheerleaders for Azerbaijan" and encouraging anti-Armenian sentiment.[4] Iranian-American journalist Sohrab Ahmari has called Doran a "propagandist…cheering—an ongoing, current ethnic cleansing."[5] Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute described him as "carrying water for the Azerbaijani regime."[6]
Casey Michel, head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, has criticized Doran's assertion that Azerbaijan under dictator Ilham Aliyev has 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, and Mobutu's Zaire were also 'bastions of diversity and tolerance.'"[7]
Books
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Experts Michael Doran". Hudson Institute.
- ^ Institute, Hudson. "Walter Russell Mead and Michael Doran Join Hudson Institute". www.prnewswire.com (Press release).
- ^ "Why the U.S. Must Not Support Azerbaijan's War". The American Conservative. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
- ^ 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) – via Twitter.
- ^ Rubin, Michael (2023-09-26). "Why Are Armenians Fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh?". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
- ^ 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) – via Twitter.