<span class="vcard">Alistair Millar</span>

Alistair Millar

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Alistair Millar (LinkedIn) is the president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and an adjunct professor at The George Washington University. In 2005 he co-founded the Global Center on Cooperative Security and was the executive director until 2017. From 2007 to 2013, he taught graduate-level courses on international security and foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University, where he received the Excellence in Teaching Award for Advanced Academic Programs. Millar has also taught at the University of Maryland and conducted trainings on countering violent extremism for the European Union in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia; and for the UK Diplomatic Academy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Millar is also a member of the board of directors for Women in International Security (WIIS). He has written numerous chapters, articles, and reports on international security, nonproliferation, sanctions, and terrorism, as well as on the nexus between security and development. He is a coauthor, with Eric Rosand, of Allied Against Terrorism: What’s Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment. He holds an MA from Leeds University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.

Articles by this author:

A large crowd waves Syrian flags — green, white, and black with a red star in the center — in Umayyad Square in Damascus.
Someone's hands flip through a wad of U.S. dollars in front of a desk covered with Syrian currency carrying former dictator Bashar al-Assad's face, and an array of financial equipment. Above the shelf are glass teller windows, one of them framing the face of what looks like a customer.
Close up red-handled rubber stamp on top of a white sheet of paper containing the text "sanctions" on a clipboard.
Two waving flags of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
A crowded prison cell is filled with men suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on October 26, 2019. They sit and lay side by side on thin cots on the floor.
President Obama speaks into a microphone with other country delegates at a table.

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