Danielle Pletka

Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies

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Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Before joining AEI, she served for ten years as a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She writes frequently on national security matters with a focus on domestic politics in the Middle East and South Asia regions, U.S. national security, terrorism and weapons proliferation.

Experience

  • Senior Professional Staff Member for Near East and South Asia, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 1992-2002
  • Staff Writer, Insight Magazine, 1987-92
  • Editorial Assistant, Los Angeles Times and Reuters, Jerusalem, 1984-85

Education

M.A., School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Smith College

All Items by Danielle Pletka

Foreign and Defense Policy
Five major threats to the U.S., our allies and our interests
Danielle Pletka | Human Events
May 25, 2012

By decade’s end, the United States will be spending more to service its debt annually than on national defense.

Foreign and Defense Policy / Regional / Middle East & North Africa
The new deal with Iran
Danielle Pletka | American Enterprise Institute
May 23, 2012

Baghdad is all atwitter over the P-5+1 talks with Iran beginning today. A sandstorm kept many European and Western diplomats from landing, but the Iranians were out in full force, with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili leading the way.

Foreign and Defense Policy / Regional / Middle East & North Africa
Iranian influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Danielle Pletka, Frederick W. Kagan, Ahmad K. Majidyar, Marisa Cochrane Sullivan | American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Study of War
May 23, 2012

The United States and its allies and partners must not only understand Iran’s regional strategy and influence but also develop a coherent strategy of their own with which to confront them. Considering the relative economic, political, and diplomatic power of the two sides, it is unacceptable for the United States and its allies to allow Iran even such progress as it has made in these realms.

Foreign and Defense Policy / Regional / Middle East & North Africa
Egypt votes, America tunes out
Danielle Pletka | American Enterprise Institute
May 23, 2012

Wednesday and Thursday mark Egypt’s first post-Mubarak presidential elections. Sadly, what should be a purple-fingered moment brings some hope and much disappointment. Don’t get me wrong – Mubarak was a loathsome stooge, a petty and incompetent rentier tyrant who deserved what he got and more.

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