Dr. Walid Phares: Analysis of the Geopolitics of the Libya Conflict (June 2020)

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Dr. Walid Phares served as a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump and Mitt Romney and is Fox News national security expert.

Dr. Phares is an engaging and highly sought after Middle East expert  and pacesetter, often predicting trends and situations on the ground  years before they occur. He is a Fox News Expert, advisor to the US  Congress and the European Parliament and served as a senior advisor on  national security foreign policy to presidential candidate Mitt Romney  2012.

Dr Phares is the only expert/author who predicted the Arab Spring a year before it occurred in his pacesetting book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Threshold,  a division of Simon and Shuster 2010). Dr Phares holds an extensive CV  and noteworthy achievements in the fields of academia, government  strategies, media and publishing critical advice on combating terrorism  and countering jihadi radicalization both stateside and abroad.

Dr Phares holds a Ph.D in international relations and strategic  studies from the University of Miami, and a Political Science Degree  from St Joseph University and a Law degree from the Lebanese University  in Beirut and a Master in International Law from Universite’ Jean Moulin  in Lyons, France.

Dr Phares taught political science and Middle East studies at Florida  Atlantic University between 1993 and 2004. Since 2006, he has taught  Global Jihadi strategies at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Dr Phares lectures on campuses nationwide and  internationally, including at the US Intelligence University. He  lectured at Georgetown University, George Washington University,  American University, Columbia, University of Chicago, Pepperdine, Boston  College, Brandeis, UC Berkley, University of Colorado at Boulder,  Loyola New Orleans, UC Santa Barbara, and many others including Ecole  Militaire of France in Paris. Dr Phares lectures also to various  academic associations including the Association for the Study of the  Middle East and Africa in Washington DC and Middle East American ethnic  organizations.