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Steven Simon is an analyst at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Professor in the Practice of International Relations at Colby. He was National Security Council Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa from 2011 to 2012 and Senior Director for Counterterrorism from 1994 to 1999. His book The Long Goodbye: The US and the Middle East from the Islamic Revolution to the Arab Spring will be published next year. (February 2020)
Iran: The Case Against War
Long wars begin with the conviction that they will be short
August 15, 2019 issue
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