Meghan L O'Sullivan
Meghan O’Sullivan is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School. She served on the National Security Council from 2004 to 2007, and was deputy national security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan.
O'Sullivan also worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003-2004, helped negotiate the bilateral security agreement between Iraq and the United States in the fall of 2008, and worked in policy planning at the State Department, where she was the senior adviser to the special envoy to the Irish Peace Process. She is a former fellow at the Brookings Institution and is the author of "Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism." O’Sullivan is a senior adjunct fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, an adviser to Hess Corp., and a board member of TechnoServe, Inc., a development nonprofit. She has a bachelor's from Georgetown University and a master’s in economics and doctorate in politics from Oxford University.
Articles By Meghan L O'Sullivan
Israel’s Undersea Gas Bonanza May Spur Mideastern Strife
Egypt’s decision last month to stop selling natural gas to Israel could be a harbinger of increasingly confrontational Egyptian-Israeli relations, an indication of a worsening Egyptian economy, or both.
Iraq Can Move Arab States to New Economic Focus
The 23rd Arab League Summit is now under way in Baghdad. Unlike the 22 non-emergency summits that preceded it, this one will be worth watching, and for two reasons.
Sanctions Alone Won’t Topple Syria’s Assad: Meghan L. O’Sullivan
On Feb. 24, the U.S., European nations, members of the Arab League and other sympathetic countries making up the newly established “Friends of Syria” group will gather in Tunisia for an emergency meeting on how to stem the bloodshed in Syria. Their deliberations are almost certain to involve calls for more crippling sanctions to bring about regime change and debates over providing military support to the fractured opposition groups inside the country.
Troops Are Gone but Iraq War Is Not ‘Over’: Meghan L. O’Sullivan
While Americans have been welcoming the “end” of the war in Iraq over the past few days, a political crisis of serious proportions has been unfolding in Baghdad.
Tiny Qatar’s Big Plans May Change Mideast: Meghan L. O’Sullivan
Qatar, a country of fewer than 2 million people set on a peninsula smaller than Connecticut, seems an unlikely candidate to become a regional power. Yet with little fanfare and less warning, tiny Qatar has emerged as one of the Middle East’s most influential states.
To Exit Afghanistan, We Should Say We’ll Stay: Meghan O’Sullivan
Even last week’s swearing in of Ryan Crocker -- one of the most talented U.S. diplomats -- as ambassador to Kabul seems unable to stanch the perception that U.S. efforts in Afghanistan are waning. Most Americans take solace in the notion that, in President Barack Obama’s words, “the tide of wars is receding,” regardless of whether the administration can tie its disengagement to success.
Kurds May Lead the Way for the Arab Spring: Meghan L. O’Sullivan
As change sweeps the Middle East, euphoria has slowly given way to anxiety that the tumult will benefit extremist religious groups with anti-Western or anti- modernization agendas.
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