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Leon Hadar
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Leon T. Hadar is a research fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. He is the former United Nations bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently the Washington correspondent for the Singapore Business Times.

Hadar has taught at American University and Mount Vernon College, where he served as director of international studies. He was a fellow at the Institute on East-West Security Studies in New York and at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Hadar is a graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned his MA degrees from the schools of journalism and international affairs and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in international relations is from American University.

He is the author of Quagmire: America in the Middle East (1992) and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Contributions

A pre-election attack on Iran remains a possibility
ASK THIS | February 36, 2008
President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons – and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran before the November election could constitute another failure of imagination. Cato’s Leon Hadar suggests questions the press should ask the presidential candidates about what they think the American response should be to various scenarios in the region – including a Gulf-of-Tonkin-like alleged provocation.