Brian Katulis is a senior fellow at American Progress, where his work focuses on U.S. national security strategy and counterterrorism policy. For more than a decade, he has advised senior U.S. policymakers on foreign policy and has provided expert testimony several times to key congressional committees, including the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.
Katulis has conducted extensive research on the ground in the Middle East, where he has lived and worked in a number of countries, including Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Israel, and Jordan. His past experience includes work at the National Security Council and the U.S. Departments of State and Defense during President Bill Clinton’s administration. He also worked for Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Freedom House, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey (D).
Katulis received a master’s degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs and a B.A. in history and Arab and Islamic Studies from Villanova University. In 1994 and 1995, he was a Fulbright scholar in Jordan. Katulis regularly provides commentary on leading television and radio programs, including “PBS NewsHour” and National Public Radio, and he has published articles in several leading newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is co-author with Nancy Soderberg of The Prosperity Agenda, a book on U.S. national security published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008.
Brian Katulis and Lawrence J. Korb explain how lessons from the Iraq War can inform how Congress approaches U.S. policy in Yemen.
Authors Alexander Bick and Brian Katulis discuss why President Trump should work with Russian President Putin develop a new strategy in Syria in order to avoid another major war in the Middle East.
John Podesta and Brian Katulis write about the deal for a ceasefire in Syria.
Brian Katulis and Peter Juul discuss how the United States has lacked of a meaningful, effective Syria strategy—even before the Trump administration.
Authors Brian Katulis and Daniel Benaim discuss Trump's "passive-aggressive" Middle East strategy and how it undercuts U.S. influence and ability to shape outcomes in the region.
Authors Brian Katulis and Alia Awadallah argue that the United States should follow Jordan's lead if it wants to revive any hope for progress toward lasting Middle East peace.
Authors Brian Katulis and Daniel Benaim look back at what the Trump administration has and has not accomplished in the Middle East throughout the past year.
Brian Katulis and Yoram Schweitzer write about Israel's concerns with the U.S. approach to Iran.
Authors Daniel Benaim and Brian Katulis argue that President Donald Trump should use the political capital he has accrued with Saudi Arabia rather than watch their actions from the sidelines.
John Podesta and Brian Katulis argue that President Trump has been leading military intervention without sufficient public attention and discussion.
