Contributors

Courtney Freer is an assistant professorial research fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is the author of Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf Monarchies (Oxford University Press, 2018), the first English language book focused on the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf states and specializes in domestic politics and foreign policies of the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Donal Radlauer is the foremost expert on the demographics of the victims from the phase of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that began in September of 2000. He is an Associate of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) where he has published and lectured extensively on topics relating to terror finance, counter-terrorism, casualty statistics, asymmetric conflict, and radicalization via “virtual communities.” Mr. Radlauer is the Lead Researcher for the ICT’s “Al-Aqsa Intifada” Database Project where he developed the project’s technological infrastructure and wrote the projects findings in the study “An Engineered Tragedy.” Mr. Radlauer studied History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a director and co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Asymmetric Conflict.

Donal Radlauer is the foremost expert on the demographics of the victims from the phase of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that began in September of 2000. He is an Associate of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) where he has published and lectured extensively on topics relating to terror finance, counter-terrorism, casualty statistics, asymmetric conflict, and radicalization via “virtual communities.” Mr. Radlauer is the Lead Researcher for the ICT’s “Al-Aqsa Intifada” Database Project where he developed the project’s technological infrastructure and wrote the projects findings in the study “An Engineered Tragedy.” Mr. Radlauer studied History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a director and co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Asymmetric Conflict.

Donal Radlauer is the foremost expert on the demographics of the victims from the phase of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that began in September of 2000. He is an Associate of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) where he has published and lectured extensively on topics relating to terror finance, counter-terrorism, casualty statistics, asymmetric conflict, and radicalization via “virtual communities.” Mr. Radlauer is the Lead Researcher for the ICT’s “Al-Aqsa Intifada” Database Project where he developed the project’s technological infrastructure and wrote the projects findings in the study “An Engineered Tragedy.” Mr. Radlauer studied History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a director and co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Asymmetric Conflict.

Michael Kugelman is the Asia Program Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on the region. His main specialty is Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan and U.S. relations with each of them. Mr. Kugelman writes monthly columns for Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel and monthly commentaries for War on the Rocks. He also contributes regular pieces to the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank blog. He has published op-eds and commentaries in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Politico, CNN.com, Bloomberg View, The Diplomat, Al Jazeera, and The National Interest, among others. He has been interviewed by numerous major media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic, BBC, CNN, NPR, and Voice of America. He has also produced a number of longer publications on South Asia, including the edited volumes Pakistan’s Interminable Energy Crisis: Is There Any Way Out? (Wilson Center, 2015), Pakistan’s Runaway Urbanization: What Can Be Done? (Wilson Center, 2014), and India’s Contemporary Security Challenges (Wilson Center, 2013). He has published policy briefs, journal articles, and book chapters on issues ranging from Pakistani youth and social media to India’s energy security strategy and transboundary water management in South Asia.

Mr. Kugelman received his M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He received his B.A. from American University’s School of International Service. Follow him on Twitter @michaelkugelman

Michael Kugelman is the Asia Program Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on the region. His main specialty is Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan and U.S. relations with each of them. Mr. Kugelman writes monthly columns for Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel and monthly commentaries for War on the Rocks. He also contributes regular pieces to the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank blog. He has published op-eds and commentaries in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Politico, CNN.com, Bloomberg View, The Diplomat, Al Jazeera, and The National Interest, among others. He has been interviewed by numerous major media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic, BBC, CNN, NPR, and Voice of America. He has also produced a number of longer publications on South Asia, including the edited volumes Pakistan’s Interminable Energy Crisis: Is There Any Way Out? (Wilson Center, 2015), Pakistan’s Runaway Urbanization: What Can Be Done? (Wilson Center, 2014), and India’s Contemporary Security Challenges (Wilson Center, 2013). He has published policy briefs, journal articles, and book chapters on issues ranging from Pakistani youth and social media to India’s energy security strategy and transboundary water management in South Asia.

Mr. Kugelman received his M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He received his B.A. from American University’s School of International Service. Follow him on Twitter @michaelkugelman

Zaglul Haider is a professor of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi. He received his PhD in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A and did an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. Dr. Haider has published a good number of articles in European, North American and South Asian academic journals. His articles appeared in The Security Dialogue, Asian Survey, The Round Table, African and Asian Studies, Asian and African Studies, South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Profile and Regional Studies. Dr. Haider's book, The Changing Pattern of Bangladesh Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Mujib and Zia Regimes, was published by the University Press Limited in 2006.

Zaglul Haider is a professor of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi. He received his PhD in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A and did an LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. Dr. Haider has published a good number of articles in European, North American and South Asian academic journals. His articles appeared in The Security Dialogue, Asian Survey, The Round Table, African and Asian Studies, Asian and African Studies, South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Profile and Regional Studies. Dr. Haider's book, The Changing Pattern of Bangladesh Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Mujib and Zia Regimes, was published by the University Press Limited in 2006.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation and author of the Occasional Report entitled “Northern Nigeria’s Boko Haram: The Prize in al-Qaeda’s Africa Strategy,” published by The Jamestown Foundation in November 2012. In 2012, he conducted field research in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon on the socio-economic factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency. Mr. Zenn earned a J.D. from Georgetown Law, where he was a Global Law Scholar, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Chinese-American Studies in Nanjing, China. He has spoken at international conferences on Boko Haram and is frequently interviewed and cited in international media.

Douglas Farah is president of IBI Consultants LLC and a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. For twenty years, he was a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter at the Washington Post, where he won numerous awards for his work. In addition to his national security consulting work he is a regular lecturer at universities, government agencies and foreign policy groups. He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions, has written two books and numerous articles and monographs.

Joseph M. Humire is a global security expert, focusing on the nexus between security, defense and economic freedom. Humire’s research and investigations on the crime-terror nexus, radical Islam and Iran’s influence in Latin America has been sought after by various entities within the U.S. government as well as think tanks and private sector clients throughout the hemisphere. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Humire is developing a global network of security and defense specialists that are focused on the intersection of security, intelligence, defense and economic development. Prior to his, Humire spent seven years with the United States Marine Corps, deployed to many hot spots around the world, including Iraq and Liberia, and partook in the first multinational military exercise in Latin America—Unitas 45-04. He is also a graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Humire co-edited the first English book on “Iran’s strategic penetration of Latin America,” scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013 by Lexington Books.

Joseph M. Humire is a global security expert, focusing on the nexus between security, defense and economic freedom. Humire’s research and investigations on the crime-terror nexus, radical Islam and Iran’s influence in Latin America has been sought after by various entities within the U.S. government as well as think tanks and private sector clients throughout the hemisphere. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Humire is developing a global network of security and defense specialists that are focused on the intersection of security, intelligence, defense and economic development. Prior to his, Humire spent seven years with the United States Marine Corps, deployed to many hot spots around the world, including Iraq and Liberia, and partook in the first multinational military exercise in Latin America—Unitas 45-04. He is also a graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Humire co-edited the first English book on “Iran’s strategic penetration of Latin America,” scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013 by Lexington Books.

Joseph M. Humire is a global security expert, focusing on the nexus between security, defense and economic freedom. Humire’s research and investigations on the crime-terror nexus, radical Islam and Iran’s influence in Latin America has been sought after by various entities within the U.S. government as well as think tanks and private sector clients throughout the hemisphere. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Humire is developing a global network of security and defense specialists that are focused on the intersection of security, intelligence, defense and economic development. Prior to his, Humire spent seven years with the United States Marine Corps, deployed to many hot spots around the world, including Iraq and Liberia, and partook in the first multinational military exercise in Latin America—Unitas 45-04. He is also a graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Humire co-edited the first English book on “Iran’s strategic penetration of Latin America,” scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013 by Lexington Books.

Joseph M. Humire is a global security expert, focusing on the nexus between security, defense and economic freedom. Humire’s research and investigations on the crime-terror nexus, radical Islam and Iran’s influence in Latin America has been sought after by various entities within the U.S. government as well as think tanks and private sector clients throughout the hemisphere. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Humire is developing a global network of security and defense specialists that are focused on the intersection of security, intelligence, defense and economic development. Prior to his, Humire spent seven years with the United States Marine Corps, deployed to many hot spots around the world, including Iraq and Liberia, and partook in the first multinational military exercise in Latin America—Unitas 45-04. He is also a graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Humire co-edited the first English book on “Iran’s strategic penetration of Latin America,” scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013 by Lexington Books.

Nathalia Watkins works at Dataminr, where she monitors, track and analyzes political, economic and security developments for a number of clients at one of the world’s leading businesses in AI and Machine Learning innovation. Nathalia Watkins holds a Master of Arts in International Public Policy with a concentration in Global Risk Analysis and Latin America. Nathalia worked as a foreign affairs journalist at Veja magazine, the largest weekly in Brazil, covering major international political events. Nathalia has also worked for outlets like Exame, Estado de S. Paulo, TV Bandeirantes, and RFI. Internationally, Nathalia worked at Reuters in Jerusalem and at Yedioth Aharonot, Israel's largest newspaper. She has received numerous awards for her work.

Nathalia was a research fellow at Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk consultancy, where she assisted the Latin America team in assessing the impact of policy decisions on the business environment.

Nathalia graduated from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica (PUC-RJ) in 2005 with a BA in Journalism and from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009 with an MA in International Relations with focus on conflict resolution.

Leonardo Coutinho is a Brazilian journalist currently serving as foreign correspondent in Washington, D.C. for VEJA magazine. He has published several articles about corruption, drug trafficking, and transnational organized crime, as well as revelations about the nuclear connections between Iran, Venezuela and Argentina. Coutinho was also the first to publish official documents that provided evidence that Iranian cleric Mohsen Rabbani --named by the Argentine Judiciary as one of the architects of the 1994 AMIA attack--had secretly visited Brazil. In 2016, his reporting revealed the identities of the members of ISIS’s terror affiliate in Brazil as part of “Operation Hashtag.” A six-time winner of the Journalist Award from Grupo Abril, Mr. Coutinho is author the book “Hugo Chávez, o espectro” (Portuguese edition) and has contributed to the book “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America,” by Lexington Books and testified before both the U.S Congress and Brazilian Parliament.

Joseph M. Humire is a global security expert, focusing on the nexus between security, defense and economic freedom. Humire’s research and investigations on the crime-terror nexus, radical Islam and Iran’s influence in Latin America has been sought after by various entities within the U.S. government as well as think tanks and private sector clients throughout the hemisphere. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Humire is developing a global network of security and defense specialists that are focused on the intersection of security, intelligence, defense and economic development. Prior to his, Humire spent seven years with the United States Marine Corps, deployed to many hot spots around the world, including Iraq and Liberia, and partook in the first multinational military exercise in Latin America—Unitas 45-04. He is also a graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Humire co-edited the first English book on “Iran’s strategic penetration of Latin America,” scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013 by Lexington Books.

Joseph M. Humire is a global security expert, focusing on the nexus between security, defense and economic freedom. Humire’s research and investigations on the crime-terror nexus, radical Islam and Iran’s influence in Latin America has been sought after by various entities within the U.S. government as well as think tanks and private sector clients throughout the hemisphere. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), Humire is developing a global network of security and defense specialists that are focused on the intersection of security, intelligence, defense and economic development. Prior to his, Humire spent seven years with the United States Marine Corps, deployed to many hot spots around the world, including Iraq and Liberia, and partook in the first multinational military exercise in Latin America—Unitas 45-04. He is also a graduate from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Humire co-edited the first English book on “Iran’s strategic penetration of Latin America,” scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013 by Lexington Books.