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Laurent Murawiec, 54, is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, the prominent Washington, D.C., think-tank. His career has covered a wide field of experience. He
• taught philosophy in France, after completing his B.A., Phil, and M.A., Phil.
• was a foreign correspondent in Germany and Central Europe for La Vie française, the French business weekly
• co-founded and managed GeoPol Services, S.A., of Geneva, a consulting company that counted top multinationals and banks amongst its clients
• taught the history of central economic planning at the prestigious Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences socials in Paris
• joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior International Policy Analyst in 1999 as an expert on information warfare, the “Revolution in Military Affairs” and Trans-Atlantic relations
• translated Carl von Clausewitz's On War into French
• is the author of several acclaimed books: War in the 21 st Century [in French and in Chinese, Beijing]; The Spirit of Nations: Cultures and Geopolitics [in French]; La Guerre d'après [in English: Princes of Darkness: The Saudi Assault on the West]
• has delivered important studies to the U.S. Department of Defense, most recently Vulnerabilities in the Chinese Way of War[2003] and The Mind of Jihad [2005].
• has lectured at many of the world's top universities, and written opinion articles for the world press
• is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies At the Hudson Institute, his main areas of research are: the strategic perspectives for Asia and U.S.-Asia relations; the war on terrorism, specifically the psychological and cultural determinants of modern jihad.

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