CHRISTOPHER BOUCEK is an associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program, where his research focuses on regional security challenges. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and lecturer in Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School. He was also previously a media analyst at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., and worked for several years at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, where he remains an associate fellow. From 2003 to 2005, he was a security editor with Jane’s Information Group. Boucek has written widely on the Middle East, Central Asia, and terrorism for a variety of publications including the Washington Post, CTC Sentinel, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Journal of Libyan Studies, Strategic Insights, and Terrorism Monitor.
STEPHEN DAY is an adjunct professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and he also has taught at Stetson University in central Florida and St. Lawrence University in New York. He is the author of “Updating Yemeni National Unity: Could Lingering Regional Divisions Bring down the Regime?” Middle East Journal, Summer 2008 and a forthcoming book entitled Yemen Redivided: Twenty Years of National Unity in the Era of Al-Qaeda.
ALISTAIR HARRIS is a former diplomat and UN staff member. He is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and frequent commentator for RUSI on Middle Eastern issues, as well as director of the research consultancy Pursue Ltd. A specialist in counter-radicalization, security sector assistance, and post-conflict stabilization, he has worked in recent years in the Balkans, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, and Africa. Harris has a first class degree from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is a graduate student at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University.
MARINA OTTAWAY is the director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She works on issues of political transformation in the Middle East and of Gulf security. A longtime analyst of the formation and transformation of political systems, she has also written on political reconstruction in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and African countries. Before joining the Endowment, Ottaway carried out research in Africa and in the Middle East for many years and taught at the University of Addis Ababa, the University of Zambia, the American University in Cairo, and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Her most recent book, Getting to Pluralism, co-authored with Amr Hamzawy, was published in 2009.
SARAH PHILLIPS lectures at the Centre for International Security Studies, Sydney University. She lived and worked in Yemen for nearly four years and specializes in Middle Eastern politics and the politics of state-building. Her recent book Yemen’s Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective (2008) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Small sections of her chapter were published by the Lowy Institute for International Policy in “Al-Qa’ida, Tribes and Instability in Yemen” (with Rodger Shanahan), 2009.