Andrew Miller is a senior fellow focused on the Middle East in the National Security and International Policy department at American Progress. He most recently served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2022 to 2024. Prior to this, he served as a senior policy adviser to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, covering the Middle East and North Africa, counterterrorism, political-military affairs, and intelligence. From 2017 to 2020, Miller was the deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy and a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program. His previous government assignments included serving as the director for Egypt and Israel military issues on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council from 2014 to 2017, where he was involved in deliberations regarding U.S. security assistance to Egypt and Israel and regarding Middle East peace, among other issues. He also worked at the U.S. Department of State in a variety of intelligence and policy roles, including in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s policy planning staff, and at the U.S. embassies in Cairo and in Doha, Qatar. Miller earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Dickinson College and a Master of Arts in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.
Congress Must Reestablish Its Role in Foreign Policy To Rein In ‘Militarist in Chief’ Donald Trump
From Venezuela to Greenland to Iran, President Trump has carried out a militarized, imperial foreign policy that has sidelined cost-effective diplomatic tools and relied almost solely on force or coercion.
Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement offers hope for an end to the war, but its implementation will depend on disciplined implementation from the inconstant president.
The Trump Administration’s Retreat From the United Nations Harms the American People
President Donald Trump’s disengagement from the United Nations is not just contrary to lofty American ideals but also a threat to the material welfare of Americans.
Save the PMF Program or Risk Losing a Generation of Public Servants
In an op-ed published by Just Security, Andrew Miller and Kelly L. Razzouk discuss the importance of Presidential Management Fellows (PMF), a professional development program that the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate.
The Trump Administration’s Reckless Strikes in Iran Raise More Questions Than Answers
Amid a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran, the ultimate consequences of President Trump’s military intervention in Iran remain unknown but are potentially deeply damaging to U.S. interests. Congress should exert its authority to prevent the president from drawing the United States further into conflict in the future.
America Is on the Verge of Catastrophe in the Middle East
In an op-ed published by Foreign Affairs, Andrew Miller argues that by joining Israel’s campaign against Iran, the United States has made a sustainable long-term solution less attainable.
President Trump’s Gulf Trip Is Heavy on Theatrics, Light on Policy
President Trump’s Middle East trip was a wasted opportunity to secure major progress on a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program and resolving the war in Gaza.
100 Days of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy: Global Chaos, American Weakness, and Human Suffering
In only 100 days, the Trump administration has wrought chaos around the world and weakened the United States’ place in it—leaving the American people and billions of others worldwide to pay the price.
The Trump Administration’s Responsibility for the Failed Ceasefire in Gaza
The Trump administration’s failure to enforce the terms of the January 15 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has wasted the best opportunity to achieve a permanent end to the war in Gaza.
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