Michael E. Moran is an award-winning journalist, educator and digital media innovator and a well known analyst on international affairs. He leads the Crisis Guides series at the Council on Foreign Relations, teaches journalism at Bard College, writes a column for Globalpost.com and provides geostrategy analysis for clients of Nouriel Roubini on the roubini.com website. From 2009 to May 2011, he served as vice president, executive editor and senior geostrategy analysis at Roubini Global Economics, the macro/strategy consultancy founded by economist Nouriel Roubini. His book, "The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power," will be published by Palgrave-Macmillan in the winter of 2012. From 2005 to June 2009, he served as executive editor of CFR.org, the website of the Council on Foreign Relations. Moran is also a foreign affairs columnist for Globalpost.com, an adjunct professor at Bard College in New York, and a member of the communications advisory board of Human Rights Watch. He is the former U.S. Affairs Analyst of the BBC an reported from abroad for MSNBC and Radio Free Europe.

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Publications by Michael Moran

• Europe Seeks a Chinese Bailout, Globalpost, Sept 19, 2011
  
• Turkey's New Influence Leaves Old Alliances Behind, The National, Sept. 4, 2011
  
• Brazil Goes Nuclear, Global Post, July 15, 2011
  
• RGE Q3 Geostrategy Note: The Scent of Jasmine, Roubini Global Economics (clients only), March 26, 2011
  U.S. Foreign Policy Hamstrung in the Gulf, globalpost.com, March 22, 2011
  Egypt: Four Ways Forward, globalpost.com, Feb. 3, 2011
  In Cairo, Al Jazeera finds itself in the line of fire, MSNBC.com, Feb. 5 2011 Assessing North Korea’s Flareup, Forbes Magazine, Dec. 16, 2010
  a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/11/avoid_the_double_dip">How Obama Can Avoid a Double Dip, Foreign Policy magazine, November 2010, with Nouriel Roubini
  Scoops and Kudos
  Frantically, the Army plays Catchup on Humvee Armor, April 2004, MSNBC.com
  “An important story that helped save countless lives. All the more impressive because wartime makes it hard to bring this kind of stuff to light.”
  --Col. Jack Jacobs (Ret.), Congressional Medal of Honor winner.
  Revenge of the ex-generals, MSNBC.com, “Brave New World” column, Sept. 2003. “Really, really nailed it. This was an early sign of where the whole Iraq mess was headed.”
  --Major Gen. Barry McCaffery (Ret.)
  The Airlift of Evil, MSNBC.com, Brave New World column, Nov. 29, 2001, revealing Pakistan’s pro-Al Qaida spies had been evacuated with U.S. consent. Winner of 2001 South Asian Journalist Association award.
  “The prescience of Michael Moran was obviously not shared by the folks at the State Department, DoD, CIA, The White House or wherever it was that Musharraf’s demands were agreed to.”
  --Christian Bleuer, Center for Arab and Muslim Studies, Australian Defence University
  Time’s Up for the Taliban, MSNBC.com, Brave New World column, Dec. 1999.
  You, like me and a few others, certainly know what it feels like to regret you were right."
  --Steven Emerson, executive director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
  

Recent Blog Posts by Michael Moran

• How America Builds Its Way Back to Balance April 11th, 2012
• Stop Paying the Egyptian Ransom January 27th, 2012
• Where’s Europe’s Madison? January 23rd, 2012
• Japan’s Yen for RMB (and vice versa) December 28th, 2011
• Wall Street Needs a New Acronym: RICO December 14th, 2011
• Ratings Agencies: Three Little, Three Late December 7th, 2011
• Silver Linings, Golden Opportunities in US Defense Cuts December 6th, 2011
• SchnittsKrieg in Europa! December 2nd, 2011
• Europe’s Fire Sale: Begging Former Colonies for a Bailout November 24th, 2011
• It’s Politics, Not the Economy, That Will Sink America November 21st, 2011
• 2012 and the American Psyche November 8th, 2011
• Pentagon’s ‘War Over Future Wars’ Is Underway November 1st, 2011
• Keeping Terrorism at Bay October 26th, 2011
• Europe According to … October 24th, 2011
• Why Occupy Wall Street Has Legs October 20th, 2011
• Drones on the Radar October 19th, 2011
• India and Pakistan: Ten Years Later, Did America Back the Wrong Horse? October 13th, 2011
• A Wider Debate in Israel? October 12th, 2011
• Never Get Tired of This Stuff October 11th, 2011
• Shooting a Gift Horse in the Eye October 10th, 2011
• A Guide to the Crisis That Is Iran October 4th, 2011
• Shameless Commerce Division October 3rd, 2011
• Vice Chairman of China’s CIC Says It’s Become Harder to Defend the U.S. Model September 30th, 2011
• Taiwan: Time to Deal From a Position of (Relative) Strength September 27th, 2011
• Marco…Marco…Polo September 22nd, 2011
• The Reckoning: Moving Slowly Toward Publication September 20th, 2011
• The Sad Case of the Germans September 19th, 2011
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Arab Spring September 9th, 2011
• Press Clips: Turkey’s New Influence, America’s Opportunity September 9th, 2011
• U.S. Drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan Masks Another in Europe September 9th, 2011
• Ten Factories that Changed the World August 31st, 2011
• August, 2001 August 17th, 2011
• Turko-phobia? Get Over It August 15th, 2011
• 2012 and the Last Chance Saloon August 8th, 2011
• What China Sees In Facebook? August 1st, 2011
• Lost in Space July 28th, 2011
• Much Ado About Space Shuttles July 21st, 2011
• Good Reads for a Hot Gotham Monday (July 18, 2011) July 18th, 2011
• Sick as a BRIC July 15th, 2011
• Good Reads, Early July edition July 8th, 2011
• How to Read the Saudi-German Tank Deal July 7th, 2011
• The Morality of Drones July 5th, 2011
• MENA Unmasks the ‘Stability’ Myth June 27th, 2011
• Good Reads, Last Friday in June June 24th, 2011
• Soft Landing or Going Soft in Afghanistan? June 21st, 2011
• Good Reads, June 20 June 20th, 2011
• Oil, Nuclear Submarines and the Falklands-Malvinas Dispute June 14th, 2011
• Good Reads, June 9, 2011 June 9th, 2011
• China’s Carrier and Other Sources of American Hysteria June 8th, 2011
• Can Kan? Japan Can’t June 3rd, 2011
• Dirty Ratko’s Longterm Legacy May 31st, 2011
• Good Reads, 5/26/11 May 26th, 2011
• A New Brave New World May 24th, 2011
• Washington Prepares for a New Egypt February 16th, 2011
• Political Upheaval in Egypt: The Outcomes February 3rd, 2011
• Obama’s ‘Plan B’: In a Largely Domestic Speech, the World Loomed Large January 26th, 2011
• Germany: Largesse Oblige? December 2nd, 2010
• Will the ‘Lame Duck’ Lay an Egg? November 30th, 2010
• Geopolitical Risks: The Not-So-Pacific Rim October 7th, 2010
• Handicapping the U.S. Midterms September 30th, 2010
• The Sick Man Is Europe August 11th, 2010
• Beijing’s ‘Own Goal’ May 25th, 2010
• Beyond the Euro: German Foreign Policy Unbound May 24th, 2010
• The Middle Makes Its Move May 18th, 2010
• Despite Appearances, Score One for Moscow in Kyrgyz Unrest April 8th, 2010
• Washington’s Dirty Secret: ‘Bipartisanship’ Returns, at Least on Foreign Policy March 24th, 2010
• Choppy Waters Rock the Trans-Atlantic Relationship March 11th, 2010
• Beware of Greeks Buying Ships February 23rd, 2010
• Fake Left, Cut Right, Drive Down the Middle January 28th, 2010
• Dodd Unbound January 6th, 2010
• How Much Unity in the United Arab Emirates? December 9th, 2009
• Quick Thoughts on Germany, 20 Years Later October 9th, 2009
• The Rising Sun also Sets October 7th, 2009
• For Obama’s Diplomacy, the Going Gets Tough September 30th, 2009
• Six Crises, 2009: A Half-Dozen Ways Geopolitics Could Upset Global Recovery July 31st, 2009