Leon Hadar
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Leon T. Hadar is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia, and is a contributing editor to The American Conservative. Hadar is the former United Nations bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently the Washington correspondent for the Singapore Business Times.
His analyses on global affairs have appeared in many newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, El Pais, The Korea Herald, and Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as in magazines such as Chronicles, Reason, Liberty, Columbia Journalism Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, Current History, Middle East Journal, and Mediterranean Quarterly. The broadcast outlets CNN, Fox News, CBC, BBC and VOA have interviewed him. He also contributes regularly to news webites like TheGlobalist.com, Antiwar.com, LewRockwell.com, The National Interest Online, Right Web, and FOXNews.com. Hadar blogs at http://globalparadigms.blogpost.com/
In addition, Hadar has taught at American University and Mount Vernon College - where he served as director of international studies - at the Institute on East-West Security Studies in New York, and at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Hadar is a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned his MA degrees from the schools of journalism and international affairs and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in international relations is from American University.
He is the author of Quagmire: America in the Middle East (Cato Institute, 1992), and of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
