ICSR - The International Centre For The Study Of Radicalisation And Political Violence

Jonathan Paris

Jonathan Paris is a London-based political analyst He is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College London and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center in Washington. He specializes in South Asia and the Middle East, radicalisation, transatlantic relations, and international security. He is also a Fellow at the University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies.

Before moving to London in 2001, Mr. Paris was a Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 1995-2000, where he worked on the Middle East and co-edited the first book on Indonesia's democratic transition, The Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia (Brookings/CFR 1999). Mr. Paris recently completed studies on counter-radicalisation strategies in Europe (2008) and the future of Pakistan (2009) for the U.S. Government.

He taught on the Middle East and Islamic trends at Yale University from 1994-97, comments frequently on BBC, CNN, Sky, CBC and NBC News, and has written for Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, the Baltimore Sun, Asharq al Awsat and other periodicals.

A Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College, Oxford from 2004-2005, he is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and is a graduate of Yale University (Magna Cum Laude, B.A., Political and Economic Systems, 1975) and Stanford Law School (J.D., 1978).