Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

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At A Glance:

Michael Doran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute. He specializes in Middle East security issues.

Research Associate
Zineb Riboua
Research Associate and Program Manager, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Biography

Michael Doran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute. He specializes in Middle East security issues and co-hosts the Counterbalance podcast.

In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council, where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate United States strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and US efforts to contain Iran and Syria. He also served in the Bush administration as a senior advisor in the State Department and a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon.

Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Doran went to elementary school in Carmel, outside of Indianapolis, before his family moved to Fullerton, California, where he graduated from Sunny Hills High School. He received a BA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD in Near Eastern studies from Princeton University.

Before coming to Hudson, Doran was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has also held teaching positions at New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Central Florida. His latest book, Ike's Gamble, was published by Free Press in 2016. He appears frequently on television, and has published extensively in Foreign Affairs, the American Interest, Commentary, Mosaic, the Wall Street Journal,  the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

Events
31
May 2023
Past Event
Erdoğan Victorious
Featured Speakers:
Michael Doran
Yusuf Erim
Svante E. Cornell
Colonel (retired) Rich Outzen, PhD
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31
May 2023
Past Event
Erdoğan Victorious

Please join Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran as he moderates a discussion with a panel of experts on Turkish politics to unpack what this decisive victory means for US-Turkey relations, the war in Ukraine, and the balance of power in the Middle East.

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Featured Speakers:
Michael Doran
Yusuf Erim
Svante E. Cornell
Colonel (retired) Rich Outzen, PhD
24
May 2023
Past Event
Promised Lands: The Torah and the American Founding
Featured Speakers:
Meir Soloveichik
Michael Doran
Robert P. George
Justin Dyer
Rachel Mackey
Hans Zeiger
Moderator:
Samuel Goldman
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24
May 2023
Past Event
Promised Lands: The Torah and the American Founding
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Featured Speakers:
Meir Soloveichik
Michael Doran
Robert P. George
Justin Dyer
Rachel Mackey
Hans Zeiger
Moderator:
Samuel Goldman
17
May 2023
Past Event
American National Security and the Russian-Iranian War on Ukraine: A Conversation with Senator Ted Cruz
Featured Speakers:
Ted Cruz
Michael Doran
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17
May 2023
Past Event
American National Security and the Russian-Iranian War on Ukraine: A Conversation with Senator Ted Cruz

Please join Michael Doran, Hudson senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, for a conversation with Senator Cruz about Cruz’s perspective on these issues and on global strategy more broadly.

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Featured Speakers:
Ted Cruz
Michael Doran
10
May 2023
Past Event
Assessing the Rising Iranian Threat
Featured Speakers:
David Albright
Henrik F. Rasmussen
Jonathan Schachter
Michael Doran
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10
May 2023
Past Event
Assessing the Rising Iranian Threat

Join Hudson Senior Fellows Michael Doran and Jonathan Schachter as they discuss the rise of Iran’s power and its implications for the US, Europe, and Israel with David Albright and Henrik Rasmussen of ISIS. 

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Featured Speakers:
David Albright
Henrik F. Rasmussen
Jonathan Schachter
Michael Doran
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Missiles fire over the Caspian Sea during the Caucasus-2020 military drills between Iran, China, Russia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus, on September 23, 2020. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
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A picture taken on November 10, 2019, shows an Iranian flag in Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, during an official ceremony to kick-start works on a second reactor at the facility. Bushehr is Iran's only nuclear power station and is currently running on imported fuel from Russia that is closely monitored by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
In the Media