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Click to read the new report by JINSA’s Eastern Med. Policy Project, “Turkey’s Escalation in Libya: Implications and U.S. Policy Options”

Click to read the latest op-ed JINSA Eastern Med. Policy Project co-chairs Ambassador Eric Edelman and Gen Charles Wald, USAF (ret.) calling for U.S. leadership in Libya in Breaking Defense

Svante E. Cornell is a Policy Advisor at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense & Strategy where he also serves as a member of the Eastern Mediterranean Policy Project. He is also the Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and a co-founder of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. His main areas of expertise are security issues, state-building, and transnational crime in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus on the Caucasus and Turkey.

Alan Makovskyis a member of JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense & Strategy Eastern Mediterranean Policy Project. He is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. His decades of experience on Turkish issues include covering Southern European and Middle Eastern affairs at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and serving as the top Middle East advisor to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Jonathan Ruheis the Director of Foreign Policy at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy. Prior to joining JINSA, he was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), where he worked on Middle East and Former Soviet Union security issues. His commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New Republic, The National Interest, and various international media outlets.

Michael Makovsky, PhD is President & CEO of JINSA. He is a U.S. national security expert, and has worked extensively on U.S. policy towards Iran’s nuclear program, the Middle East, and the intersection of international energy markets and politics with U.S. national security.