Michael Soussan
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Michael Soussan has contributed editorial articles to the International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, Prospect Magazine (UK), Salon, The Irish Times, The New York Post, Commentary Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a regular contributor to the Providence Journal editorial pages. He holds an MA in International Relations from Science-Po in Paris, a certificate in film directing from NYU, and a BA from Brown University, where he founded and edited The Brown Journal of World Affairs. Soussan has been invited to lecture by various organizations including the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), the Ditchley House in Oxford, the Harvard Club of New York, the London School of Economics, Johns Hopkins, the MIT book club, and the World Affairs Council. He has also testified before the House International Relations Committee of the US Congress. Soussan has been interviewed by over a dozen of NPR radio stations, as well as the BBC, CNN, FOX News, ABC News, SKYNEWS, among others. Prior to becoming an author, Soussan worked at CNN and at the United Nations, where he served as Program Coordinator for the United Nations Iraq Program. He currently teaches international affairs and the Iraq conflict at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, and lives in New York City.

His website is www.michaelsoussan.com.

Blog Entries by Michael Soussan

Afghan Women at a Crossroads

Posted August 1, 2011 | 13:19:30 (EST)

KABUL - The mood was tense this Saturday at the Kabul Senerena Hotel, where leading Afghan women gathered to prepare for the daunting challenge that awaits them now that the official countdown to the withdrawal of international forces has begun.

"I am deeply worried," said Samira Hamidi, the leader of...

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Mission Creep in the Congo

Posted September 21, 2010 | 14:57:48 (EST)

Yet again the United Nations has confessed to a serious and embarrassing failure to protect civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - the main reason of its deployment of 17,000 peacekeeping troops to the region. Unless the UN is prepared to adapt its mission there to the realities...

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Beyond Outrage -- Bringing Sexual Terrorists to Justice

Posted August 26, 2010 | 13:35:04 (EST)

NEW YORK - The United Nations' recent pledge to combat sexual violence in conflict zones was put to the test once again this month, with the mass rape of at least 154 women in Eastern Congo. And once again the UN is failing that test.

It is not for...

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