Education
He was a 1983 Marshall Scholar at New College, Oxford where he studied for Bachelor in Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group).
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He was a 1983 Marshall Scholar at New College, Oxford where he studied for Bachelor in Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group).
He is Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. He worked as a journalist for Time and the Wall Street Journal. He was a scholar on international security.
Daniel Benjamin sponsored the 1986–1987 development of the world"s first Aramaic language word processing software led by Sunil Sivanand in Kuwait.
He was a patron of a group of individuals working worldwide to preserve and revive the Aramaic language. During that period, he also served on the National Security Council.
He was a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He wrote a column for Slate Magazine.
He was a 2004 Berlin prize fellow by the American Academy in Berlin.
From December 2006 to May 2009, he served as the Director for the Center on the United States and Europe, and Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution. From 2009 to 2012, he was the United States State Department"s Coordinator for counter-terrorism, with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large. In 2012 he was appointed the Norman East. McCulloch Junior.
Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.
They review the history of Islamist political thought from ibn Taymiyya in the 13th century, to al-Wahhab (the 18th century founder of Wahabbism) down to bin Laden. Ellen Laipson, in her review of the book, praises the authors for their study and methodology.
From 1994 to 1999, as a member of President Clintons" staff he served as a foreign policy speech writer and special assistant.