Jonathan Blitzer, Staff writer, The New Yorker, 2021 Emerson Fellow at N
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A national security policy expert who spent more than 30 years in Asia as a practitioner and specializes in Korea and Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He retired as a Special Forces Colonel having served in command and staff positions at all levels in the U.S. Army and USSOCOM.
Applied theorist focusing on future war and conflict, violent non-state actors (VNSAs), and counter-opposing force (C-OPFOR) strategies, past U.S. Army War College Minerva Chair and FBI Academy Futurist in Residence. Currently, Director of Research & Analysis with C/O Futures, LLC and Senior Fellow, Small Wars Journal-El Centro.
Dr. John P. Sullivan was a career police officer, now retired after 30 years.
Retired US Army officer with multiple combat deployments, host of the podcasts Revolution in Military Affairs and War on the Rocks' Soldier Pulse, and author of Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare. He has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Reading.
Director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law, author of multiple books with work featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other media. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.
Günes Murat Tezcür
Director, School of Politics and Global Studies, author/editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (Oxford 2022) and Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities (I.B. Tauris, 2021).
Jeremy Hodge
Senior Investigator, Zomia Center working on extremism in Syria and Iraq, contributor to Proxy War Today: Case Studies of Conflict in the Middle East (Oxford 2022), his articles appear in Foreign Affairs, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Al Jazeera.
Karima E. Bennoune
Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (2015 to 2021), author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here (W.W. Norton 2013), with related TED talk viewed by 1.3 million.