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==Career== ==Career==
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Ilan I. Berman
EducationBA in Politics from Brandeis University, MA in International Politics from American University, and JD from Washington College of Law
EmployerAmerican Foreign Policy Council
Known forone of the U.S.'s leading experts on the Middle East and Iran
Notable workWinning the Long War: Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam (2009); Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States ( 2005)
TitleVice President

Ilan I. Berman is Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, a non-profit U.S. foreign policy think tank in Washington, DC. He focuses on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation. Lou Dobbs of CNN described him as "one of the 's leading experts on the Middle East and Iran."

Education

Berman has a BA in Politics from Brandeis University, an MA in International Politics from American University, and a JD from Washington College of Law.

Career

Berman is Adjunct Professor for International Law and Global Security at the National Defense University, and a member of the Associated Faculty at Missouri State University's Department of Defense and Strategic Studies. He also serves as a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, writes a monthly column for Forbes.com, and is an Editor of The Journal of International Security Affairs. He has also advised various governmental agencies and congressional offices on foreign policy and national security issues.

Views

In November 2002, Al Ahram Weekly quoted him as remarking with regard to the U.S.'s targeted killing of al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen,

It is too early to tell whether this event alone will precipitate a shift toward explicit support of such tactics as employed by Israel on Washington's part. What does seem clear, however, is that the United States and Israel are gravitating toward increasingly similar perceptions, and possibly strategies, in the war on terrorism.

He wrote in his 2005 book Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States that the United States had unintentionally removed two significant checks on the power of Iran in the region: Saddam Hussein, in Iraq, and the Taliban, in Afghanistan.

In August 2006 he noted that to that point in time, the U.S. had had a lot of difficulty in convincing especially Russia and China, to support sanctions on Iran for its moving forward with its uranium enrichment program, and that "both Moscow and Beijing are major strategic partners of the Islamic republic and have a vested interest in protecting their investments in the Iranian regime." In July 2008 he observed: ""The Iranians are playing a colossal game of chicken with us," and asked: "Does the international community have the will to take the short-term pain and disarm these guys, or accept the long-term pain of a region completely dominated by this regime? I think the world community has essentially come to grips with the fact that Iran is going to go nuclear."

In October 2009, Berman noted: "“The Iranian strategy has been pretty consistent all along; to keep the West talking while they work on their nuclear program." In March 2010, commenting on Iran's warning to Europe not to sanction it, he observed:"The Iranians have a pattern of warning anyone threatening to get tough with them, basically saying, ‘Don’t do this, because there will be consequences. What’s notable here is that they are singling out Europe. It’s a sure sign Europe is being more activist than it normally is."

Works

Books

Select articles

Statement before Congress

References

  1. ^ "American Foreign Policy Council – Experts » Ilan I. Berman". Afpc.org. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  2. "CNN.com – Transcripts". Edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  3. "Welcome to CISA". Ndu.edu. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  4. "Columnists". Forbes.com. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  5. Nyier Abdou (November 20, 2002). "Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Death by Predator". Weekly.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  6. VoIP and Call Center News Editor (April 27, 2006). "Iran flaunts options on striking back at West". Tmcnet.com. Retrieved May 23, 2010. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. Stannard, Matthew B. (August 27, 2006). "U.N. unlikely to punish Iran – experts / Some say even light sanctions wrong way to curb nuclear drive – SFGate". Articles.sfgate.com. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  8. Ward, Olivia (July 22, 2008). "Iran talks 'colossal game of chicken'". Toronto: thestar.com. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  9. "Iran Reply to UN Fuel Plan Falls Short of Acceptance (Update1)". Bloomberg.com. October 29, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  10. "Nuclear weapons worries: Is threat of Iran sanctions making Tehran testy with Europe?". CSMonitor.com. March 1, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010.

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