Gregory D. Johnsen

Gregory D. Johnsen has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan, a Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Egypt. In 2013-14 he was selected as BuzzFeed’s inaugural Michael Hastings National Security Reporting Fellow where he won a Dirksen Award from the National Press Foundation and, in collaboration with Radiolab, a Peabody Award.

For the past two years he has served on the Yemen Panel of Experts for the UN Security Council.

He has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and Master’s degrees from Princeton and the University of Arizona, as well as a Bachelor’s degree from Hastings College in Nebraska. Johnsen is the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia.

Articles by this author:

No Clean Hands: Reaction and Counter-Reaction in the Iranian-Saudi Proxy War in Yemen

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Nov 21st, 2018

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are on Their Heels in Yemen, But Will Return Unless We Help Build a Lasting Peace

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Aug 7th, 2018

Iranian Missiles and Ending the War in Yemen

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May 23rd, 2018