Specialties: U.S. Foreign Policy, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Islamist Movement, Middle East Culture, Iran, Individual Rights, Moral Foundations of Freedom, Ethics in Foreign Policy

 Mr. Journo is a fellow and director of policy research at the Ayn Rand Institute. His book, Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, analyzes post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy from the perspective of Rand's philosophy. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Journal of International Security Affairs, and the Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, and in popular media outlets, including FoxNews.com, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and Canada's Globe and Mail. Mr. Journo has briefed Congressional staffers and spoken at numerous campuses, including Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, New York University, George Mason University, and the U.S. Naval Academy. 

Contact

ejourno@aynrand.org
Office: 949-222-6550
Media inquiries: 202-609-7470

Books

Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism (Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books: 2009)

Articles and Commentary

Articles and Essays

Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand and U.S. Foreign Policy
Galt Goes Global - ForeignPolicy.com
Book review of Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War (Peter Berkowitz) - Journal of International Security Affairs
Featured interview on uprisings in the Middle East - Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, with Yaron Brook
Book review of Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions by John Agresto - The Objective Standard
The "Forward Strategy" for Failure
The Jihad on America
Exposing Anti-Muslim "Conspiracies"

Op-Eds

Our Self-crippled Policy Encouraged the Deadly Embassy Attacks - FoxNews.com
Our Self-Crippled War?
Obama Whitewashes Iran?
With or Without Nukes, Iran is a Mortal Threat
The Price of Bush's Commitment to Palestinian Statehood
The U.S.-Israeli Suicide Pact
[More op-eds by Elan Journo]

Blog Posts

War on (fill in the misleading blank)
Disconnected dots
The impact of Islamic ideas in the Middle East
Where we stand with Iran, 30 years after the hostage crisis
Draw Mohammad, risk your life?
McChrystal's other—deadly—scandal

[More blog posts by Elan Journo]

Video and Audio

Fox News Channel

Video: PJTV [watch]

Radio: "Dealing with Iran" [listen]

[More video and audio by Elan Journo]

Talks, Events, and Lectures

Our Unwinnable Wars? [watch] [panel discussion, talk]
Iran, the Islamist threat, and American Policy [watch]
Road to 9/11 [watch] [talk]
What's America's Stake in the Arab-Israeli? Conflict [talk]
The Jihad on America [talk]
The Islamic World and the West Today [lecture course]
Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict [lecture course]
The Distinctiveness of an Egoistic Foreign Policy [lecture course]