Rory Miller

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, he was a member of the War Studies department and then head of the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Program at King’s College London.

He has held a visiting professorship in the War Studies department of King’s College London (2014-17), and a Visiting Research Professorship at Trinity College Dublin (2020-21). He is currently the lead on 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 on “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 Arabic; Al Jazeera English; Al Jazeera Mubasher; BBC America; BBC World Service; Bloomberg; CNBC Europe; CNN International; National Public Radio (NPR, US); RTE (Ireland); The Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); Turkish State Television (TRT); and Voice of America.