Jeffrey Martini is a senior Middle East researcher at the RAND Corporation, where he works on political and security issues in the Arab World. Martini also spent a year as the North Africa lead at the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. He has published on Arab Gulf security, Syria stabilization, civil-military relations in Egypt, and generational divides within the Muslim Brotherhood. Martini spent four years living in the Arab world, including three as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco and one in Cairo, Egypt, where he was a 2007–08 fellow in the CASA Arabic language program. He speaks, reads, and writes modern standard Arabic and speaks Moroccan and Egyptian colloquial. Martini received his M.A. in Arabic studies from Georgetown University and his B.A. in political science and economics from Middlebury College.
Selected Publications
Jeff Martini, "Cairo’s Candidate Shuffle," Foreign Affairs online edition, 2012
Jeff Martini, "The Military Wins Again," Foreign Affairs online edition, 2012
Jeff Martini and Julie Taylor, "Commanding Democracy in Egypt: The Military's Attempt to Manage the Future," Foreign Affairs, 90(5), 2011
Jeff Martini, "The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Old Age Fighting Time (book review of the Arabic language study)," Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2(2), 2009
Martini, Jeffrey, Becca Wasser, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Daniel Egel, and Cordaye Ogletree, The Outlook for Arab Gulf Cooperation, RAND Corporation (RR-1429), 2016
Martini, Jeffrey, Erin York, and William Young, Syria as an Arena of Strategic Competition, RAND Corporation (RR-213), 2013
Martini, Jeffrey, Stephen M. Worman, Voting Patterns in Post-Mubarak Egypt, RAND Corporation (RR-223), 2013
Martini, Jeffrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye, and Erin York, The Muslim Brotherhood, Its Youth, and Implications for U.S. Engagement, RAND Corporation (MG-1247), 2012
