Dr. Michael Yaffe is the Academic Dean and Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. He writes and lectures on strategic studies, Middle East regional security, Gulf security architecture, border security, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, diplomatic history, and George Washington.

Prior to joining the NESA Center in 2001, Dr. Yaffe was a career Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S. Department of State where he concentrated on Middle East security and nuclear weapon nonproliferation. From 1993 until 2001, he served on the U.S. delegation to the Middle East Peace Process, focusing on multilateral negotiations in the Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) Working Group. Additionally, he organized and managed the U.S. Government’s Middle East regional security Track Two Program fostering regional security dialogue. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on September 11, 2001, he served as a coordinator on the counter-terrorism task force in support of “Operation Enduring Freedom.”

Education
• Post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Ph.D., Politics, University of Pennsylvania
• M.A., International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
• B.A., Economics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Sussex University

Areas of Interest
• WMDs and Nonproliferation
• Middle East Peace Process
• Regional Security Systems

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