Lori Boghardt
Barbara Kay Family Fellow, The Washington Institute
Lori Plotkin Boghardt is the Barbara Kay Family Fellow at The Washington Institute, where she specializes in Arab Gulf politics and U.S.-Gulf relations. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Boghardt worked for more than ten years as a Middle East analyst for the U.S. intelligence community, including at the Central Intelligence Agency and Science Applications International Corporation. Dr. Boghardt holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Oxford, an MPA. from Cornell University, and a BA in politics and Near Eastern studies also from Cornell.
Next week, on August 2, is the 27th anniversary of the day Saddam’s forces stormed across Iraq’s southern border with the goal of annexing their small neighbor, Kuwait. It took only two days to seize [...] More
