Steven A. Cook

Steven A. Cook is the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United States. He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as US–Middle East policy. Dr. Cook is the author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). He has been published widely in a variety of foreign policy journals, opinion magazines and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Democracy, The Weekly Standard, Slate, The New Republic Online, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Survival. Dr. Cook is also a frequent commentator on radio and television. He currently writes the blog, “From the Potomac to the Euphrates.” Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Cook was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2001–2002) and a Soref Research Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1995–1996). Dr. Cook holds a BA in international studies from Vassar College; an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and both an MA and Ph.D in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.