Jordan Tama is Assistant Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at American University and Research Fellow at AU’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. His research and teaching focus on the foreign policy making process, national security strategy, presidential-congressional relations, and intelligence and counterterrorism policy. Dr. Tama is the author of Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has also published articles in Foreign Policy, TheAtlantic.com, The Hill, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and other journals, and has contributed to several foreign policy blogs, including Democracy Arsenal, Progressive Fix, and Across the Aisle. Dr. Tama has appeared on The Alonya Show and The Inside Scoop, and has been quoted in USA Today and by Fox News. 

Dr. Tama has served as a member of the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Expert Advisory Groups for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, as a speechwriter for former U.S. Representative Lee Hamilton, and as a contributor to the Princeton Project on National Security. He is a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project and a Member of the American Political Science Association. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.