Rory Miller

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Bio

Rory Miller is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is also a professor of International Politics and director of the Small States Research Program and the Energy Studies Program at Georgetown University in Qatar.

Between 1999 and 2014, Miller was a member of the War Studies department and later head of the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Program at King’s College London. He then held a visiting professorship in the War Studies department of King’s College London and a Visiting Research Professorship at Trinity College Dublin.

Miller is currently the lead on Qatar Research Development and Innovation Council (QRDI) multi-year funded project: “The Maritime Sector and Resilience-building in a Small State: The Qatar Case Study”. He is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including Inglorious Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers: The Rise of the Arab Gulf (Yale University Press, 2016).

He has published extensively in academic and policy journals and the international media including Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The National Interest, and The Wall Street Journal. His media appearances include Al Jazeera, BBC,  Bloomberg, CNBC Europe, CNN International, and Voice of America, among others.

Research Areas

  • Small state security
  • Regional security
  • Maritime/energy security

Countries of Focus

  • GCC
  • EU/US
  • Africa

Other Areas of Interest

  • Alliances
  • External intervention theory

Education

  • Ph.D., International History, King’s College London, 1998.
  • M.A., War Studies, King’s College London, 1994.
  • B.A., History, Trinity College Dublin, 1993.

Articles

In this Council Views, experts from the ME Council reflect on the past 100 days of the new Trump administration's disruptive foreign policy, unpacking what recent changes mean for MENA and how states are responding—from USAID and State Department cuts, to the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks, to Gulf states’ posturing ahead of the president’s expected visit
Hamidreza Azizi, Mouin Rabbani, Rory Miller, Frédéric Schneider, Haid Haid, Paul Dyer, Dalia Ghanem, Özge Genç, Rashid Al-Mohanadi, Adel Abdel Ghafar, Yahia H. Zoubir, Faozi Al-Goidi, Nader S. Kabbani, Mahjoob Zweiri