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I am a geopolitical analyst with more than 30 years of experience in foreign policy and global affairs. My geographic focus is on America, Europe, and the Middle East, and my subject matter expertise is on U.S. foreign policy, European politics, and transatlantic defense- and security-related issues. In recent years I have devoted much of my time to studying counter-terrorism, jihadism, and the rise of Islam in Europe.<\/p>\n

I am a fellow at the Ideological Defense Institute<\/a> (IDI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that equips policymakers, the Church, and the public to counter ideological threats to Western civilization.<\/p>\n

I am also the senior analyst for European politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos<\/a> \/ Strategic Studies Group, the oldest private think tank in Spain.<\/p>\n

Previously, I was a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum<\/a>, a Philadelphia-based think tank that promotes American interests in the Middle East and seeks to protect Western values from Middle Eastern threats.<\/p>\n

I am a regular commentator about European affairs for newspapers and radio programs on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

I also speak about current events and the geopolitics of Islam at conferences, seminars and churches in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n

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I advise European and American companies on geopolitical risk, and <\/span>teach courses on diplomacy and international relations at universities in Spain and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been a contributing analyst for Jane\u2019s Information Group<\/a> on Basque and Islamic terrorism in Spain and France, and my work has been published in specialized intelligence publications such as Jane\u2019s Intelligence Review<\/a>, Jane\u2019s Intelligence Weekly and Jane\u2019s Terrorism and Security Monitor.<\/span><\/p>\n

My foreign policy analyses have been published by the American Enterprise Institute<\/a>, New York Times<\/a>, Oxford Analytica<\/a>, World Politics Review<\/a> and the Weekly Standard<\/a>, among others. A full list of my published works can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have been a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute<\/a>, a non-partisan foreign policy think tank based in New York City, as well as the senior analyst for transatlantic relations at the Madrid-based Elcano Royal Institute for Strategic and International Affairs<\/a>, the largest think tank in Spain. I served in the US Air Force<\/a> (stationed in Germany) during the last decade of the Cold War, and worked as a defense analyst at Science Applications International Corporation<\/a> (SAIC), one of the leading corporate think tanks advising the Pentagon on nuclear non-proliferation. I was also the Washington-based managing editor of Arms Control Today<\/a>, a strategic affairs monthly magazine.
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I graduated with a degree in diplomacy and international security from the School of Foreign Service<\/a> at Georgetown University<\/a> in Washington DC, and also studied Middle Eastern history and geopolitics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have visited more than one hundred countries, including all of those in Europe and most of those in the Middle East. The most fascinating place I have ever been to is Iran, a country rarely seen by outsiders and enchanting beyond belief. It is home to astonishing landscapes, truly amazing food, and some of the most hospitable people in the world.<\/p>\n

I am a dual citizen of the United States and Germany. I am fluent in English, German and Spanish, and have a working knowledge of Dutch, French, Italian and Portuguese. I am married to my best friend M\u00f3nica and we live in Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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