Laurent Murawiec

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Laurent Murawiec was a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. He was a senior international policy analyst with the RAND Corporation until 2002. His main research areas concern the application of anthropology to strategy, the "Revolution in Military Affairs," and information warfare.He has taught philosophy in Paris and was a foreign correspondent in Germany and Central Europe for La Vie Francaise, a major French business weekly. He later co-founded and managed GeoPol Services S.A., a Geneva, Switzerland, consulting company that advised multinational corporations and banks.

Prior to moving to the United States, he was an adviser to the French Ministry of Defense and taught the history of economic planning at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has taught military analysis and cultural anthropology at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Murawiec earned his B.A., Phil. and M.A., Phil. from the Sorbonne University in Paris. He speaks fluent Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French.

Murawiec has translated Clausewitz's On War into French (Perrin, 1999), as well as works by G. von Scharnhorst. His book La Guerre au XXIè siècle (Odile Jacob, 2000) dealt with the "Revolution in Military Affairs." L'Esprit des Nations: cultures et géopolitique, appeared in 2002 in Paris (Odile Jacob): It examines the historical and cultural identity of China, Japan, India, and Russia. His book on Saudi Arabia and the United States appeared in 2003 in France as La Guerre d'après (Albin Michel, Paris) and as Princes of Darkness: the Saudi Assault on the West (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2005). Vulnerabilities in the Chinese Way of War, a study for the Department of Defense, was published in 2004 by Hudson Institute, as was Aristotle in Cyberspace: Toward a Theory of Information Warfare and The Mind of Jihad (2005) and Pandora's Boxes, volumes in a series investigating the theology, history and anthropology of modern jihad. A completely recast version of the two volumes will appear in September 2008 by Cambridge University Press as The Mind of Jihad.

A contributor to The National Interest, Middle East Quarterly, France's Le Débat, XXè siècle, revue d'histoire, Politique internationale, Pour la Science, and other journals; he has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the Financial Times, National Review Online, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Die Welt and others. He has lectured at Columbia University, Georgetown, SAIS-Johns Hopkins, Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge, UK, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Canadian Military College, the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale in Paris, Duxx Business School in Monterrey, Mexico. He has appeared on Fox & Friends, BBC-TV, French, Italian, Canadian national television, LBN TV of Lebanon and Al-Jazeera, Chinese (NTD-TV) and Japanese (NHK) television networks. He has been a frequent host of conservative and Christian radios in the United States.