Michael Scott Doran, Date of Birth

Michael Scott Doran

American academic

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1962

Profession: political scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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Michael Doran (born April 25, 1962) is an American expert on the international politics of the Middle East.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
He has been a visiting professor at the Robert F.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and taught at the University of Central Florida.
He was appointed to the National Security Council and was also Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy at the U.S.
Department of Defense under the George W.
Bush administration. In a Foreign Affairs article, "Somebody Else's Civil War," he argued that the September 11 attacks were part of a religious conflict within the Muslim world.
Doran wrote that Osama bin Laden's followers "consider themselves an island of true believers surrounded by a sea of iniquity." Hoping that U.S.
retaliation would unite the faithful against the West, bin Laden sought to spark revolutions in Arab nations and elsewhere—war with America was never his end; it was just a means to promote radical Islam.
This article was "the first to advance the thesis...that Osama bin Laden used the attacks of 9/11 as a tool for influencing a conflict between Muslims."