The National Democratic Institute (NDI),officially known as the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,is a non-profit American NGO whose stated mission is "support[ing] and strengthen[ing] democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation,openness and accountability in government".
Shibley Telhami is an American professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland,College Park,and a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington,D.C.,focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East.
Martin Sean Indyk is an American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East. He was a distinguished fellow in International Diplomacy and later executive vice president at the Brookings Institution in Washington,D.C from 2001-2018. He took leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations from 2013 to 2014. He is currently a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Diaspora politics in the United States is the political behavior of transnational diasporas of ethnic groups,their relationship with their ethnic homelands and their host states,as well as their role in inter-ethnic relations. This article describes case studies and theories of political scientists studying diaspora politics within the specific context of the United States. The general study of diaspora politics is part of the broader field of diaspora studies.
Peter Mandaville is an American academic and former government official.
Bruce O. Riedel is an American expert on U.S. security,South Asia,and counter-terrorism. He is currently a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution,and a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also serves as a senior adviser at Albright Stonebridge Group.
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies (CSS). From 2005 to early 2007 he was a deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity,he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. From 2001 to 2005,Levitt served the Institute as founding director of its Terrorism Research Program,which was established in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Previously,he provided tactical and strategic analytical support for counter-terrorism operations at the FBI,focusing on fundraising and logistical support networks for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. During his FBI service,Levitt participated as a team member in a number of crisis situations,including the terrorist threat surrounding the turn of the millennium and the September 11 attacks.
The Center for Middle East Policy is a center for research within the Brookings Institution focused on the United States' involvement in the Middle East. It was founded in May 2002.
Itamar Rabinovich is the president of the Israel Institute. He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996,and the former president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007). Currently he is professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University,distinguished global professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is a United States State Department program that fosters meaningful and effective partnerships between citizens,civil society,the private sector,and governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to resolve local challenges and promote shared interests in the areas of participatory governance and economic opportunity and reform.
William B. Quandt is an American scholar,author,and professor emeritus in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He previously served as senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and as a member on the National Security Council in the Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter administrations. He was actively involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. His areas of expertise include Algeria,Egypt,Israel,Palestine,the Israeli–Palestinian peace process,and U.S. foreign policy.
Lilia Fyodorovna Shevtsova is a Kremlinology expert.
Thomas O. Melia currently serves as Washington director at PEN America. Previously,he served in the Obama Administration as USAID's assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia (2015–2017) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy,Human Rights and Labor,at the United States Department of State (2010–2015). Melia previously served as executive director of Democracy International,an organization that designs,implements,and evaluates democracy and governance programs around the world. Melia also served as the deputy executive director of Freedom House,a human rights organization.
American democracy promotion aims to encourage governmental and non-governmental actors to pursue political reforms that will lead ultimately to democratic governance.
Bassma Kodmani was a Syrian academic who was spokesperson of the Syrian National Council. She was the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative,a network of independent Arab research and policy institutes working to promote democracy in the Arab world.
Daniel L. Byman is one of the world's leading researchers on terrorism,Counterterrorism and the Middle East. Dr. Byman is a professor in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program He is a former Vice-Dean of the school.
Dalia Dassa Kaye is an American academic. She serves as the Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica,California.
Eric Bjornlund is an American expert in democratization assistance and election observation and co-founder and president of Democracy International and the author of Beyond Free and Fair:Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. Bjornlund is also a lawyer and adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Aaron (Aharon) S. Klieman was an American-born Israeli historian of international relations who developed the field of international affairs in Israel and abroad. Klieman researched a wide variety of fields in political science including history,arms sales,and geopolitics. He was the Dr. Nahum Goldmann Chair in Diplomacy and lecturer on international relations in the Department of Political Science at Tel-Aviv University,and was the founding director of the Abba Eban Graduate Program in Diplomatic Studies. A native of Chicago,Illinois,his PhD is from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,with an M.A. from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University in Middle Eastern studies.
