New Books in National Security Creators & Guests

Deidre Tyler is a professor in the Sociology department at Salt Lake Community College.

Nathan Moore is a podcast host for New Books Network.

Dr. Miranda Melcher earned her PhD in Defence Studies from King’s College London, where she researched how to negotiate and implement peace treaties. Her research identifies methods for integrating opposing forces into unified post-conflict security institutions through peace treaty negotiation and implementation, with her qualitative historical case studies focusing on Mozambique and Angola. She is currently a Senior Legal Fellow at Just Access.

Dr. Bekeh Ukelina is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies at the State University of New York, Cortland. His research focuses on African history, colonialism, gender studies, and social justice. He has published extensively on the impacts of colonial rule, education, and development in Africa. Through his leadership at the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, he advances scholarship and initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. An active public intellectual, he engages in discussions on global inequalities and historical legacies through both academic and social media platforms.

Qing Shen is an anthropologist.

Charles Coutinho is a diplomate in political history. He has written for Chatham House’s International Affairs.

David S. Nasca is a writer, and author of the book The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare.

Elizabeth F. Thompson is a leading historian of the modern Middle East and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University's School of International Service.

Stella Ghervas is a historian.

Dr. Douglas M. O'Reagan is an author and historian.

Oumar Ba is an assistant professor of political science at Morehouse College, writer, researcher, and author of the book States of Justice.

Elisabeth Piller is an author of Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933.

E. Bruce Geelhoed is a professor of history at Ball State University and author of the book Diplomacy Shot Down.

Gary Shiffman is an economist and CEO of Giant Oak.

Dr. Matthew James Brazil is a researcher and writer. Currently, he is a non-resident Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, a consulting firm that specializes in studies on China.Brazil worked in Asia for over 20 years as a U.S. Army intelligence officer, an American diplomat based in Beijing, and a corporate security investigator.Brazil's first book, "Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer," was published in 2019.

Dr. Yangyang Cheng is an expert on China. Currently, she is a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.Before joining Yale, Cheng was a physicist, and worked on the Large Hadron Collider for more than a decade as a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University and an LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.Cheng is a columnist at SupChina, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, MIT Technology Review, ChinaFile, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.Cheng received her B.S. in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China’s School for the Gifted Young and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago.

Luke Patey is an author and Lead Senior Research Fellow of the Gas Programme at OIES.

Hiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and a leading scholar in American immigration and citizenship law. His work explores the legal and policy dimensions of immigration, including issues of integration, rights, and the historical development of U.S. immigration law. He has authored influential books such as Americans in Waiting and Immigration Outside the Law, shaping academic and public discourse on immigration policy. A recipient of multiple awards for his scholarship and teaching, Motomura is also actively engaged in legal advocacy and policy discussions on immigration reform.

Samar Al-Bulushi is the author of the book: "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024).