Leon_Hadar
Leon Hadar, is a global affairs analyst, journalist, blogger and author. A long-time critic of American policy in the Middle East,[1] he is a former research fellow with the Cato Institute,[2] and is currently a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute , He has been a contributing editor for The American Conservative and for National Interest, has written for Asia Times, The Spectator, Quillette and Times of Israel and has served as a columnist for Haaretz and as a blogger for the Huffington Post. Hadar has published numerous analyses and commentaries on U.S. global diplomatic and trade policies, with a special focus on the Middle East and East and South Asia. Hadar is the author of two books on U.S. policy in the Middle East, Quagmire: America in the Middle East (Cato Institute, 1992), and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Hadar also served as a foreign policy advisor to the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign.[3] He has taught political science at University of Maryland College Park[4] and is a former Senior Analyst at Wikistrat.[5]