Blaise Misztal
Associate Director
Blaise Misztal is currently the associate director of foreign policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). He joined BPC as a senior policy analyst in 2008. As part of the National Project, Misztal directs a new project aimed at developing recommendations for using U.S. public diplomacy to address 21st century security challenges. He has contributed to all three of BPC's Meeting the Challenge reports concerning nuclear proliferation in Iran as well as A Stitch in Time, a report focused on how to stabilize fragile states. In addition, Misztal launched BPC's cybersecurity initiative by directing the 2009 "Cyber ShockWave" simulation which aired on CNN. He has spoken at numerous conferences on cybersecurity and the need for better private-public partnership to respond to cyberattacks.
Before joining BPC, Misztal spent a year as a Nuffield Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He was selected as a future leader by the Foreign Policy Initiative in 2010 and named as a national security fellow by the Foundation for Defense of Democracy in 2011. His publications include “Protect, But From What? Genocide As A Concept Of Moral And Legal Universalism,” in Rafal Lemkin: A Hero of Humanity; and “Spring Trap,” which he co-authored with Michael Makovsky and Jonathan Ruhe, in The New Republic. Misztal is currently completing his Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University, where his research focuses on the relationship between democracy, liberalism and social stability. He holds an M.Phil. in political science from Yale and an A.B. with honors from the University of Chicago.
Publications
- Obama’s Iran policy shifts to containment, The Washington Post, December 11, 2011
- The New IAEA Report: Beyond Weaponization, November 10, 2011
- The growing threat of Iran’s nuclear program, The Washington Post, November 8, 2011
- Egypt Struggles to Find Its Footing, November 7, 2011
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