Paul D. Miller (academic)
Paul D. Miller | |
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Nationality | United States |
Fields | Politics, National Security, Afghanistan |
Institutions | Clements Center for National Security |
Alma mater | Georgetown University, Harvard Kennedy School |
Paul D. Miller is an American academic, blogger, and former White House staffer for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.[1] He is the Associate Director of the The William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.[2] He is also an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation, a former officer in the U.S. intelligence community and veteran of the war in Afghanistan.[3][4]
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Education
Dr. Miller received his PhD in International Relations from Georgetown University and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His BA in Political Theory is also from Georgetown University.[5]
Career
Dr. Miller served as Director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council staff from September 2007 to September 2009 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Miller served on the staff of Douglas Lute, who served as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan for President Bush and, subsequently, as Special Coordinator for Afghanistan and Pakistan for President Obama. Miller supported the presidential transition and continued in his position during the Obama Administration before accepting a position as Assistant Professor of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.[6][7]
Views on Afghanistan
Miller writes regularly about U.S. policy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia. He has argued that "The greatest threat to long-term success in Afghanistan is not the Taliban, who are fairly weak compared to other insurgent movements around the world. It is the Afghan government’s endemic weakness and the international community’s failure to address it."[8] Miller's proposed solution is greater attention to reconstruction and stabilization in Afghanistan.[9] He has criticized the views of conservatives, like George Will, as well as moderates and liberals, like David Rothkopf, who argue the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable.[10][11]
Publications
Books
Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure, 1898 - 2012, Cornell University Press, 2013.
Necessary War: What America Needs to Know About the War in Afghanistan, The Cicero Press, 2012.
Articles
"On Strategy, Grand and Mundane," Orbis, Vol. 60, Issue 2, 2016, pg. 237-247.
"Obama's Failed Legacy in Afghanistan," The American Interest, Vol.11, Issue 5, February 2016.
“Five Pillars of U.S. Grand Strategy,” Survival, Vol. 54, Issue 5, pg. 7-44.
"American Grand Strategy and the Democratic Peace," Survival, Vol. 54, Issue 2, pg. 49-76.
“The Fading Arab Oil Empire,” National Interest, No. 120, July/August 2012.
"Be Afraid," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 4, July/August 2012, pg. 146-9.
“Five Steps to Better Politics in Afghanistan,” The AfPak Channel, ForeignPolicy.com, April 9, 2012.
“When Does the U.S. Drone War Stop?” The Washington Post, 18 November 2011.
“Afghanistan Demystified,” Books and Culture, November/December 2011, page 16.
“Congressional Oversight in Afghanistan,” ForeignPolicy.com, February 14, 2011.
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External links
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