Aram Nerguizian

Senior Associate (Non-resident), Burke Chair in Strategy
Aram Nerguizian

Aram Nerguizian is a senior associate with the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, where he conducts research on strategic and military dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa. During his time at CSIS, Nerguizian has focused on specialized themes such as U.S. and Iranian strategic competition in the Levant, Syrian instability and regional competition, Hezbollah, the Lebanese Armed Forces, security sector reform, and challenges to civil-military relations and force development in post-conflict and divided societies. He is frequently consulted by governments and the private sector, appears regularly on CNN, BBC News, Al-Jazeera, CBS News, VOA and PBS, and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, the Associated Press, and other news outlets on security issues in the Middle East.

Nerguizian has authored or coauthored a number of books and reports on the Middle East and regional security issues. Major reports for the Burke Chair include Competing Strategic Interests and the Military and Asymmetric Dimensions of Regional Instability (2013); The Proxy War in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories and Syria (2013); Instability in Syria: Assessing the Risks of Military Intervention (2011); The Arab-Israeli Military Balance: Conventional Realities and Asymmetric Challenges (2010); The Gulf Military Balance in 2010: An Overview (2010); The Lebanese Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Syria Lebanon (2009). His books include The North African Military Balance: Force Developments in the Maghreb (2009) and Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and the Prospects of War (2008). Nerguizian received his M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, his B.A. in political science from Concordia University in Montreal and his Global Executive M.B.A. (GEMBA) from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School. He has also received security assistance training from the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM).

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The Case For and Against a "Realist" Strategy in Syria

The Trump Administration has inherited Syria as a land of lost options, and as a country where U.S. policy is broadly seen as a failure and a sign of growing American weakness in the Middle East.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Aram Nerguizian — January 24, 2017

The Military Balance in a Shattered Levant

The war against ISIL and the civil war in Syria have highlighted the importance of the military balance in the Levant and the extent to which it has an impact on Iraq and the Gulf, the flow of global energy exports and the world economy, and international terrorism.

Report by Aram Nerguizian — June 15, 2015

Lebanon at the Crossroads

Aram Nerguizian, senior fellow of the Burke Chair in Strategy, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs.

Congressional Testimony by Aram Nerguizian — February 25, 2014