Bruce Riedel

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Director, The Intelligence Project | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

Bruce Riedel is senior fellow and director of the Brookings Intelligence Project, part of Brookings’ new Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. Riedel also serves as a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Riedel joined Brookings following a 30-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, a tenure which included multiple overseas postings. He served as a senior advisor to the last four U.S. presidents on South Asia and the Middle East, working as a senior member of the National Security Council | View Full Bio

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    Avoiding Armageddon

    America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

    2013, Bruce Riedel

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Refine by: Terrorism | Middle East and North Africa | Pakistan | Afghanistan

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202.797.4396 — Gail Chalef, Director of Communications, Foreign Policy

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Resources

Expertise

  • Counterterrorism
  • Arab-Israeli issues
  • Persian Gulf security
  • India and Pakistan

Experience

Past Positions

  • Special Advisor, NATO, Brussels, Belgium (2003-2006)
  • Member, Royal College of Defense Studies, London, UK (2002-2003)
  • Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs, National Security Council (2001-2002)
  • Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council (1997-2001)
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1995-1997)
  • National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Intelligence Council (1993-1995)
  • Director for Gulf and South Asia Affairs, National Security Council (1991-1993)
  • Deputy Chief Persian Gulf Task Force, Central Intelligence Agency (1990-1991)
  • Various assignments, Central Intelligence Agency (1977-1990)

Education

  • M.A., Harvard University, 1977
  • B.A., Brown University, 1975

Language Fluency

  • English

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The Brookings Essay

A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan & India
Historian and journalist William Dalrymple looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. He sees the danger of an escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers that could threaten world peace.

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