Frederic Wehrey | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Discipline | Middle East Affairs |
| Sub-discipline | Libyan Gulf policies |
Frederic Wehrey is an American scholar of Middle East affairs,expert on Libyan and Gulf politics,and Senior Fellow at the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [1] Wehrey earned a PhD in international relations from Oxford University. [1]
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Wehrey previously served as a U.S. military officer assigned to the defense attachéoffice in Tripoli prior to the revolution. He returned to Libya as a researcher after Gaddafi's fall,interviewing Khalifa Haftar and spending time on the frontline with the Libyan National Army. He is the author of the book,Sectarian Politics in the Gulf:From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings,which was chosen by Foreign Policy as one of the top five books of 2013 [2] and by Foreign Affairs as one of top three books on the Middle East. [3]
Wehrey has lectured at Princeton, [4] Dartmouth, [5] and Georgetown University. [6] His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, [7] The Washington Post, [8] The New York Times, [9] Foreign Affairs, [10] Foreign Policy [11] and he has appeared on CNN,PBS NewsHour, [12] and The Charlie Rose Show, [13] among others.
Wehrey has testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives on the need for a more effective U.S. policy in Libya. [14]
