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Laurel E. Miller

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Senior Political Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

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Education

J.D., The University of Chicago Law School; A.B. in international affairs, Princeton University

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Biography

Laurel Miller is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, focusing on national security and foreign policy issues. She is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and law school. She was a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she focused on constitutional issues and rule of law development in countries emerging from conflict, and on international justice issues. During previous government service, she was involved in conflict resolution and post-conflict stabilization, including as senior advisor to the U.S. special envoy for the Balkans, senior advisor to the assistant secretary of state for European affairs, and deputy to the ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. Miller was directly involved in peace negotiations in Macedonia, Kosovo, and Bosnia. She also served as director for western hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council. Miller was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations; practiced law with the firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and Brussels; and clerked for a federal judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier, she was a graduate fellow in India and worked as a reporter in Japan. Miller received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

Democratization in the Arab world
State-building and earthquake recovery in Haiti
Nation-building comparative analysis and lessons learned
Justice reform, police development, and counternarcotics in Afghanistan
Security in Kosovo

Selected Publications

James F. Dobbins, Laurel E. Miller, Stephanie Pezard, Christopher Chivvis, Julie E. Taylor, Keith Crane, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth, and Tewodaj Mengistu, How Local Circumstances Affect Nation-Building Outcomes, RAND (MG-RR-167-CC) (forthcoming)

Laurel E. Miller, Jeffrey Martini, F. Stephen Larrabee, Angel Rabasa, Stephanie Pezard, Julie E. Taylor, Tewodaj Mengistu, Democratization in the Arab World: Prospects and Lessons from Around the Globe, RAND (MG-1192-RC), 2012

Larry Hanauer and Laurel E. Miller, Resolving Kirkuk: Lessons Learned from Settlements of Earlier Ethno-Territorial Conflicts, RAND (MG-1198-USFI), 2012

Angel Rabasa, John Gordon IV, Peter Chalk, Christopher S. Chivvis, Audra K. Grant, K. Scott McMahon, Laurel E. Miller, Marco Overhaus, Stephanie Pezard, From Insurgency to Stability: Volume I: Key Capabilities and Practices, RAND (MG-1111/1-OSD), 2011

Keith Crane, James Dobbins, Laurel E. Miller, Charles P. Ries, Christopher S. Chivvis, Marla C. Haims, Marco Overhaus, Heather Lee Schwartz, Elizabeth Wilke, Building a More Resilient Haitian State, RAND Corporation (MG-1039), 2010

Laurel E. Miller, ed., Framing the State in Times of Transition: Case Studies in Constitution Making, USIP Press, 2010

Terrence Kelly, Larry Crandall, and Laurel Miller, "Fixing Foreign Assistance for Counterinsurgency," in Christopher M. Schnaubelt, ed.,, Counterinsurgency: The Challenge for NATO Strategy and Operations, NATO Defense College Forum Paper, 2009