2007 / 2008 Fellows

Greg Behrman was the Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at The Aspen Institute.  Greg has published two books: The Most Noble Adventure:  The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe (2007)and The Invisible People:  How the U.S. Has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, The Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (2004). Greg has a B.A. in Political Economy from Princeton University and an M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, where he received a Distinction on his thesis. At the Carr Center he will be researching the relationship between economic conditions and some of the political and geopolitical problems in the Middle East and examining ways that America can use economic diplomacy and economic instruments more effectively to advance stability and human rights, as well as America's strategic position, in the region.

Dexter Filkins is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. From March 2003 until August 2006, he was a correspondent in the paper’s Baghdad bureau. Prior to that, he was chief of the paper’s Istanbul bureau and a correspondent in Afghanistan, where he covered the war there in 2001 and 2002. He is writing a book about Afghanistan and Iraq, to published by Alfred R. Knopf. Filkins’ work in Iraq and Afghanistan has received a number of awards, including a George Polk award for his coverage of the assault on Falluja in November 2004. During the attack on Falluja, Filkins accompanied a company of Marines, a quarter of whom were killed or wounded in eight days. In 2002, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his work from Afghanistan. Filkins joined The New York Times in 2000. Prior to that, he was the New Delhi bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times. From 1987 until 1995, he was a reporter for the Miami Herald. Filkins has an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University and a B.A. in government from the University of Florida, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He grew up in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Arif Jamal is a scholar and prominent journalist from Lahore, Pakistan. Arif has written more than 200 investigative and interpretive articles in English, focusing on such subjects as Islamist politics in Pakistan, jihad in Kashmir, madrassas and Afghanistan. Arif’s first book, which profiles and analyzes the history of the jihad in Kashmir in 1988, is expected to be published this fall. Arif began his professional career in Pakistan in 1986 as a journalist with Radio Pakistan and has since worked with such publications as The Pakistan Times, The Muslim, The News, Newsline and Financial Post. Arif has also worked with various foreign media including The New York Times, Radio France International, and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. At the Carr Center this fall, Arif will be studying modern Salafism and Salafist jihad in South Asia and its links with Saudi Salafists.

Ana Julia Jatar has served as a member of the Executive Committee and Director of the Political Discrimination Project at SUMATE, an NGO established in 2003 to defend political and electoral rights in Venezuela. While at SUMATE, she wrote a book titled Apartheid in the XXI Century. In the early 90’s she served in the Venezuelan government and was appointed head of the anti-trust agency. During her term, she was also responsible for drafting the norms and regulations for implementing competition policy in Venezuela for the first time. From 1994 until 2001 she was a Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC, where she dealt with trade, antitrust and other US/Latin-American policy issues. In 1995 she became the director of the Dialogue’s Cuba Program and wrote a book on Cuba titled The Cuban Way. The book received the Choice Award as Outstanding Academic Book. While in Washington, she was the co-host of “Choque de Opiniones” on CNN en Español. From 2001 to 2003 she was a visiting fellow at the David Rockefeller Center, Harvard University where she investigated the growing economic and political bonds between Fidel Castro’s and Hugo Chavez’s governments. She is member of the Editorial Committee of El Nacional, Venezuela’s leading daily newspaper where she also writes a bi-weekly op-ed piece. Dr. Jatar has a PhD in economics from Warwick University in the UK.

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Glenn M. Sulmasy, Esq., Commander, USCG, JA is a judge advocate, an associate professor of law at the United States Coast Guard Academy, and an adjunct faculty at Roger Williams University School of Law. Commander Sulmasy was a Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., for the 2003-2004 academic year. He has served in numerous operational billets at sea including tours of duty in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and Red Sea with the Navy during the first Gulf War and along the coast of the United States. Commander Sulmasy has also been an aide/fellow to former Congressman Rob Simmons (Ct-2). He received his B.S. in government from the United States Coast Guard Academy, Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law and an LL.M. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. Commander Sulmasy has received numerous military awards including: three Meritorious Service Medals, Joint Service Commendation Medal, USCG Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Operation Desert Shield Medal and Kuwait Liberation Medal. He has received commendations for his service from the U.S. Congress, Governor of the State of Connecticut, and the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Fatima Tlisova is an independent journalist from the North Caucasus. She has worked for ten years as a correspondent for a number of independent Russian papers as wells and international media, including the Associated Press, “Novaya Gazeta”, RFE/RL, BBC and has also served as chief of the North Caucasian bureau of the Russian news agency Regnum. Fatima is a regular writer for IWPR (London) and for the Jamestown Foundation (Washington DC). In her reports and analyses Tlisova has covered how Russian official policy has undermined human rights and exacerbated problems of the North Caucasus region. Fatima’s work has receiving the Rory Peck award and the German Zeit-Stiftung award for her professional and brave reporting on the conflict in the North Caucasus and her efforts to help fellow journalists.

Jonathan Tracy is a military and legal consult to CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict).  Jonathan served as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Army from 2002 until 2005. He was assigned to the First Armored Division in Baumholder, Germany and deployed with that unit to Baghdad for fourteen months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His primary responsibility in Iraq was serving as a Claims Officer. In that position he adjudicated claims filed by Iraqis who were harmed by U.S. or coalition military operations. Jonathan earned an LL.M. in the International Legal Studies Program at American University Washington College of Law with a specialization in the International Protection of Human Rights.  Jonathan holds a B.A. degree from James Madison University and a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Chase College of Law.