Steven Simon
{{short description|American international security expert}}
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Steven Simon is a former United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa.{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=225566 |title=New US Mideast director takes the helm a... JPost - National News |date=13 December 2010 |access-date=2011-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812114616/http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=225566 |archive-date=2012-08-12 }} He also previously served as the Executive Director IISS-US and Corresponding Director IISS-Middle East {{cite web |url=http://www.iiss.org/en/persons/steven-s-simon |title= Steven Simon | IISS|website=www.iiss.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812192055/http://www.iiss.org/en/persons/steven-s-simon |archive-date=August 12, 2013}} and as a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute based in Washington, D.C.[http://www.mei.edu/content/robert-ford-and-steven-simon-joining-mei-senior-fellows Robert Ford and Steven Simon Joining MEI as Senior Fellows] MEI, April 23, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014. He was Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He was a Spring 2008 Berlin Prize Fellow. Steven Simon is now a visiting professor at Colby College in Maine.
Education
Simon holds a BA in Classics and Near Eastern Languages from Columbia University, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and an MPA from Princeton University.{{Cite web|title=Terrorism and Middle East Expert Steven Simon Joins the Council to Study American-Muslim Relations|url=https://www.cfr.org/news-releases/terrorism-and-middle-east-expert-steven-simon-joins-council-study-american-muslim|access-date=2020-07-28|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Yumpu.com|title=Download this issue as a PDF - Columbia College - Columbia ...|url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/4603873/download-this-issue-as-a-pdf-columbia-college-columbia-|access-date=2021-06-25|website=yumpu.com|language=en}}
Career
In 1999 Steven Simon moved to Britain, where he worked as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Before he moved to London, Simon was Director for Global Issues and Senior Director for Transnational Threats at the White House. After Simon left the IISS he specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation,{{Cite web|last1=Monica|first1=1776 Main Street Santa|last2=California 90401-3208|title=About the RAND Corporation|url=https://www.rand.org/about.html|access-date=2020-07-28|website=www.rand.org|language=en}} before he became a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).{{Cite web|title=Steven Simon|url=https://www.cfr.org/content/bios/Simon_bio_Jul09.pdf|access-date=28 July 2020}}
He was an International Affairs Fellow at Oxford University and a University Fellow at Brown University.{{Cite web|title=Steven Simon|url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/steven-simon/|access-date=2020-07-28|website=American Academy|language=en-US}}
Works
- [http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63398/steven-simon/the-price-of-the-surge "The Price of the Surge"], Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008
- [http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65159/steven-simon/can-the-right-war-be-won?page=show "Can the Right War Be Won?"], Foreign Affairs, July/August 2009
- {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/opinion/18simon.html|title=Why We Should Put Jihad on Trial| work=The New York Times|date=November 17, 2009}}
- [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2019-10-15/americas-great-satan "America's Great Satan"], Foreign Affairs, November/December 2019 (with Daniel Benjamin)
;Books
- Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror. Radical Islam's War Against America, Random House, New York 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-375-50859-2}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqZuEeBtLpsC&q=steven+simon| title=The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right|author=Daniel Benjamin |author2=Steven Simon |publisher=Macmillan|year= 2006| isbn= 978-1-4668-0325-1}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GA7CU4plPcsC&q=steven+simon|title=The sixth crisis: Iran, Israel, America and the rumors of war|author=Dana H. Allin |author2=Steven Simon |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-19-975449-6}}
- {{cite book|title=Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East| author=Steven Simon|publisher=Penguin Press|year=2023|isbn=978-0-73-522424-7}}
References
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External links
- http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/steven-simon
- http://www.npr.org/books/authors/138377308/steven-simon
- {{C-SPAN|1002712}}
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