Dr. David Long
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David Long
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Dr. Long is a consultant on Middle East and Gulf affairs and international terrorism. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1962, and served in Washington and abroad until 1993, with assignments in Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the Sudan. His Washington assignments included Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism for Regional Policy, a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, and Chief of the Near East Research Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Bureau. Dr. Long was also detailed to the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University in Washington (1991-92), and to the United States Coast Guard Academy (1989-91), where he served as Visiting Professor of International Relations and in 1990-91 as Acting Head of the Humanities Department.
A native of Florida, Dr. Long earned an A.B. in history from Davidson College, an M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina, an M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the George Washington University.
From 1974 until 1975, Dr. Long was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and concurrently a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. While on leave of absence from the State Department, he was the first Executive Director of the Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (1974-1975). From 1982 until 1983, he was a Senior Fellow of the Middle East Research Institute and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and from 1987 until 1989, he was a Diplomat in Residence and Research Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University.
Dr. Long has been an adjunct professor at several Washington area universities, including Georgetown, George Washington and American Universities and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has also lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on topics relating to Islam, the Middle East, and terrorism.
Dr. Long’s publications include The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (co-editor with Bernard Reich, 4th ed. 2002), Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century (co-editor with Christian Koch, 1998), The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1997), The Anatomy of Terrorism (1990), The United States and Saudi Arabia: Ambivalent Allies (1985), Saudi Arabian Modernization (with John Shaw, 1982), The Hajj Today: A Survey of the Contemporary Makkah Pilgrimage (1979), Saudi Arabia (1976) and The Persian Gulf (1976, revised 1978).