Elan Journo

Elan Y. Journo (born January 1976) is a writer, specializing in foreign policy. He is also a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and its Director of Policy Research.[1]

Personal life

Elan Journo grew up in the United Kingdom,[2] and he studied at King's College London from 1994 to 1997, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy.[3] He also attended SOAS, University of London, studying international relations and diplomacy. Journo lives in Irvine, California. He has Israeli citizenship.[2]

Career

Journo joined the Ayn Rand Institute in 1999, becoming a core-courses instructor at the Institute's Objectivist Academic Center in 2005.[1] In 2009, he was the editor of, and the main contributor to, Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, a collection of essays that argues for an Objectivist foreign policy of self-defence based on rational self-interest, as an alternative to neo-conservative nation-building. In 2010, he was appointed by the Institute as the Director of Policy Research, specializing in foreign policy.

Journo has contributed articles to Arutz Sheva,[4] The Journal of International Security Affairs,[5][6] Foreign Policy magazine,[7] Fox News,[8] the Los Angeles Times,[9] the Chicago Sun-Times,[10] the Houston Chronicle,[11] The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations,[12] the Middle East Quarterly,[13] and others. He has also made television and radio appearances on outlets such as Fox News and NPR.[3] Journo has given many talks to academic audiences, such as at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Los Angeles, New York University, and the United States Naval Academy.[14]

Journo was a 2013 Lincoln Fellow at The Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank in Claremont, California, studying the application of Abraham Lincoln's and the Founding Fathers' political thought to modern-day policy-making.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Elan Journo". Ayn Rand Institute. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 "The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (OCON 2015)". YouTube. Ayn Rand Institute. November 10, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "2013 Lincoln Fellows". The Claremont Institute. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "OpEds: Elan Journo". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Journo, Elan. "World Upside Down". The Journal of International Security Affairs. Fall/Winter 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  6. ↑ Journo, Elan. "Islamist Winter". The Journal of International Security Affairs. Fall/Winter 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  7. ↑ Journo, Elan. "Galt Goes Global". Foreign Policy. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Elan Journo". Fox News. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  9. ↑ Journo, Elan; Simpson, Brian P. "Union Packs Unfair Punch in Grocery Strike". Los Angeles Times. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  10. ↑ Journo, Elan. "Kowtowing by West only emboldens Iran". HighBeam Research. 30 October 2005. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Viewpoints: Israeli attack on Hamas leader justified, criticized". Houston Chronicle. 27 July 2002. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  12. ↑ "A Conversation with Yaron Brook and Elan Journo". The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. Winter/Spring 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  13. ↑ Journo, Elan (Summer 2014). "Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes". Middle East Quarterly. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Elan Journo of the Ayn Rand Institute will speak at meeting in Redlands". Redlands Daily Facts. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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