Gary Sick

Senior Research Scholar, Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

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Gary Sick is a Senior Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute, an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, and an Affiliate of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  Sick is also a member of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East.  His primary research interest is Iran.

Sick served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. Sick is a captain (ret.) in the U.S. Navy, with service in the Persian Gulf, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. He was the deputy director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, where he was responsible for programs relating to U.S. foreign policy. Sick was the executive director of Gulf/2000, an international research project on political, economic, and security developments in the Persian Gulf, conducted at Columbia University from 1994 to 1995 on behalf of the W. Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations.

Sick received a B.A. from Kansas University, an M.S. from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Selected Publications

Co-edited with Lawrence G. Potter, Iraq, Iran, and the Legacies of War (Palgrave, 2004).

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Co-edited with Lawrence G. Potter, The Persian Gulf at the Milennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion (Palgrave, 1997).

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October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan (Random House, 1991).

“Taking Vows: the Domestication of Policy-making in Hostage Incidents.” Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind, ed. Walter Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter With Iran (Random House, 1985).

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