Stephen Zunes, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist and senior analyst, is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author, along with Jacob Mundy, of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict...
Ian Williams is a senior analyst whose work has written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
Chris Toensing is the executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project.
Joe Stork is the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division. He has written numerous books and widely published articles on the Middle East.
Areas of interest and expertise are Latin America (especially Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru), Southeast Asia (especially Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) and North Africa and the Middle East (especially Libya and to a lesser degree, Syria). Strategic Planning and Commercial...
Writes on Iraq, particularly the Shi'ite Arab majority; Also Iraq -- history of internal resistance and political parties Iraq -- the 1991 anti-Saddam uprisings betrayed by the last Bush administration Colombia -- US support for Colombian military and paramilitary...
Adil E. Shamoo, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine, is an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow and a Foreign Policy In Focus senior analyst. He is the author of: Equal Worth – When Humanity Will Have Peace. Shamoo has written...
Michael Renner is a senior researcher and director of the Global Security Project at Worldwatch Institute, a globally focused environmental research organization.
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