BROWSE EXPERTS AND FELLOWS
Belfer Center researchers include Harvard faculty members, project directors and other expert staff, senior fellows and fellows. They contribute frequently to outside publications, advise government officials, participate in special commissions, brief journalists and policymakers, and share research results with specialists and the public.
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LEGEND:
Fellow
Sean M. Lynn-Jones
Editor, International Security; Series Editor, Belfer Center Studies in International Security
Sean M. Lynn-Jones is the Editor of International Security, the International Security Program's quarterly journal. He is also series editor of the Belfer Center Studies in International Security, the Program's book series that is published by MIT Press.
Brian Mandell
Lecturer in Public Policy
Brian Mandell is Lecturer in Public Policy and Chair of Harvard University's Wexner-Israel Fellowship program. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Steven E. Miller
Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, International Security, and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security (which is published by the MIT Press).
Matt Waldman
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Matt Waldman practiced as an international lawyer based in London, after which he served as a foreign affairs and defense advisor in the UK and European Parliaments. He has worked on Afghanistan and the region since 2005, most recently as a senior UN official in Kabul covering conflict resolution and reconciliation with the Taliban.
Nussaibah Younis
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Nussaibah Younis' research focuses on the impact of state weakness on Iraqi foreign policymaking since 2003 and Iraq's post-war state structure. She has published on the relationship between sectarianism and Iraq's post-war electoral system.
Daniel E. Zoughbie
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Dr. Daniel E. Zoughbie previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. His research examines U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Nicholas Burns
Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Nicholas Burns is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics. He is Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Chair for the Programs on the Middle East and on India and South Asia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Steven E. Miller
Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, International Security, and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security (which is published by the MIT Press).
Matt Waldman
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Matt Waldman practiced as an international lawyer based in London, after which he served as a foreign affairs and defense advisor in the UK and European Parliaments. He has worked on Afghanistan and the region since 2005, most recently as a senior UN official in Kabul covering conflict resolution and reconciliation with the Taliban.
Dara Kay Cohen
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty, International Security Program
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Dara Kay Cohen's research and teaching interests span the field of international relations, including international security, civil war and the dynamics of violence during conflict, and gender and international relations. Her current book project examines the variation in the use of sexual violence during recent civil conflicts.



