Rory Miller is a Professor of International Politics, Co-Director of the Small States Research 

Program, and Director of Energy Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar where he teaches 

and researches on small states and regional security, intelligence and national security, external 

intervention and alliances. He was a member of the War Studies department and then head of the 

Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Program at King’s College London between 1999 and 

2014. In recent years, he has held a visiting professorship in the War Studies department of 

King's College London (2014-17), and a visiting research professorship at Trinity College 

Dublin (2020-21). He serves on several advisory boards, including the Foreign Policy Network 

of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). He is currently the lead principal 

investigator on a multi-year funded research project on “Managing National Security Risk during 

and after the Blockade: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Qatar’s Energy Sector”. He is 

co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series on “Intelligence and National Security 

in Africa and the Middle East.” He is the author or editor of 11 books including Inglorious 

Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians (Columbia University Press, 2011), Desert 

Kingdoms to Global Powers: The Rise of the Arab Gulf (Yale University Press, 2016) and, most 

recently, Overcoming Smallness: Challenges and Opportunities for Small States in Global 

Affairs (Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press with Fahad Al-Marri). He has published 

extensively in academic and policy journals and the international media including Foreign 

Affairs, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The National Interest, and The Wall 

Street Journal. His media appearances include Al Jazeera Arabic; Al Jazeera English; Al Jazeera 

Mubasher; BBC America; BBC World Service; Bloomberg; CNBC Europe; CNN International