Michael Doran

Michael Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in Middle East security issues and co-hosts the foreign policy-focused “Counterbalance” podcast. Doran previously served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was a senior director on the National Security Council where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate U.S. strategy on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and U.S. efforts to contain Iran and Syria. He also served as a senior advisor in the State Department and was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon. Doran has testified before Congress, written two books, “Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East” and “Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics And The Palestine Question”, and published articles in Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, Commentary, Mosaic, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.