International Affairs & Security Studies

  • Areas of Research: International Security, Wartime learning and adaptation, Conventional deterrence, Taiwanese defense reform

  • General Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency when the course of world events was changing at a rapid rate.

  • Bassam Haddad is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

  • Jack A. Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is also a senior fellow of the Mercatus Center, and director of Schar’s Center for the Study of Social Change, Institutions and Policy (SCIP).

  • Areas of Research: Comparative Politics, Diversity, Europe, Immigration Policy, International Migration, Islam, Middle East, Minority Politics, Muslim Politics, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, United States