Hear Paul R. Pillar, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, discuss the United States’ path forward in the Middle East and future relations with Iran.
About Paul R. Pillar
Dr. Pillar is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. Previously, Dr. Pillar worked for several decades in the U.S. intelligence community in a variety of analytical and managerial positions, including as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia; Chief of Analytic Units at the CIA covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia; and Executive Assistant to the CIA’s Deputy Director for Intelligence. He was also a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Pillar is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer and served in Vietnam. He received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is the author of several publications including Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy and Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, and is a contributing editor of The National Interest.