Biography
Steven A. Cook is a member of the board of advisors for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD’s) Turkey Program. At the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Steven is the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies.
He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East; False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East; The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, which won the 2012 gold medal from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Ruling but Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey.