Daniel Benjamin
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Daniel Benjamin is Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. He is a former journalist and White House advisor and is considered an expert on jihadist terrorism.
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Education and career
Benjamin graduated from Harvard College in 1983 and was awarded an M.A. by Oxford University in 1985. Below is a summary of Benjamin's carrer from the Brookings Institution[1]:
- TIME Magazine (1988-1992)
- Wall Street Journal (1993-1994)
- Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Presidential Speechwriter, the National Security Council, the White House (1994-1997)
- Director for Transnational Threats, the National Security Council, the White House (1998-1999)
- Senior Fellow, the United States Institute of Peace (2000)
- Senior Fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2001-2006)
- Director of the Center on the United States and Europe, the Brookings Institution (Dec 2006-present)
Publications
- Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The next attack : the failure of the war on terror and a strategy for getting it right (New York: Times Books, 2005) (ISBN: 9780805079418; 0805079416)
- Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The age of sacred terror (New York, Random House, 2002) (ISBN: 0375508597; 9780375508592)
Affiliations
Organisations
- United States Institute of Peace, former Senior Fellow
- Center for Strategic and International Studies, former Senior Fellow
Individuals
Steven Simon, co-author
Notes
- ↑ Brookings Institution, Daniel Benjamin, Background (accessed 31 May 2008)
