Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University
An expert on the Middle East, energy and the economic dimensions of international security, and Chinese foreign policy, Flynt Leverett is professor of international affairs and Asian studies at Penn State. He is also a visiting scholar at Peking University's Institute of International and Strategic Studies and a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute of Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He served in the US government as senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, on the secretary of state's policy planning staff, and as a CIA senior analyst; he left government service in 2003 because of disagreements over Middle East policy and the conduct of the war on terror. He has also been visiting professor at MIT and Yale.
China steps up as US steps back from global leadership
Jan 23, 2017 00:50 am UTC| Insights & Views
Chinese President Xi Jinpings appearance at last weeks World Economic Forum shows global leadership is shifting, not drifting, toward Beijing. The most vigorous defense of globalization and multilateral cooperation was...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects