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Elana Delozier
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Elana DeLozier is the Rubin Family Fellow in the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she specializes in Yemen, the Gulf states, and nuclear weapons and proliferation. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She spent eight years in the Middle East (2011-2018) as a political analyst and trainer, including six years in the Gulf and two years in Lebanon. While abroad, she founded The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs to train political analysts and make political analysis more accessible. She has taught graduate courses on nuclear proliferation, Gulf politics, and counterterrorism at New York University in New York City and at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. From 2006-2010, she served as the right hand to the commissioner of the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau as well as an intelligence analyst on nuclear issues and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. She started her career at the Brookings Institution.

Ms. DeLozier appears frequently in the media discussing the internal dynamics of Yemen, events in the Gulf, and Iran's nuclear program. She was recently selected as a member of the 2019 Mid-Career Cadre for CSIS’s Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI).

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M.A. and B.A. in political science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech).

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Featured Publications

Yemen Matrix
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Yemen Matrix: Allies & Adversaries
The Yemen Matrix is a guide to the relationships between the core actors involved in the country’s various conflicts. It is meant to be a starter resource for new analysts, a quick-access volume for policymakers, and a refresher for experts.
Sep 17, 2020
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  • Elana DeLozier
Maps & Graphics
A Caretaker President Clings to Legitimacy in Yemen Sudden Succession Essay Series
In 2012, during a moment of national and regional consensus, the reserved, nonthreatening Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi was chosen as temporary president of Yemen. But Hadi, now seventy-four years old, has held onto power ever since, despite lacking a large base of domestic loyalists. Most important for the Yemeni people, the war needs to end with either a transitional council or elections so that a future leader enjoys the popular legitimacy Hadi lacks.
Dec 10, 2019
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  • Elana DeLozier

Policy Articles by Elana DeLozier

Brief Analysis
Oman’s Sultan Caps First Year by Appointing Heir and New Military Leadership
Jan 28, 2021
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  • Elana DeLozier
Brief Analysis
Humanitarian Aid and the Biden Administration: Lessons from Yemen and Syria
Jan 25, 2021
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  • Jan Egeland
  • Alex Harper
  • Emma Beals
  • Jomana Qaddour
  • Elana DeLozier
  • Charles Thépaut
A government solcier in Yemen
Articles & Testimony
Yemen Policy From the Inside Out
Dec 15, 2020
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  • Elana DeLozier
Brief Analysis
Houthi Terrorism Designation More Likely to Deliver Famine and Entanglement Than Leverage
Nov 25, 2020
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  • Elana DeLozier
Brief Analysis
The Yemen Matrix: Untangling the Relationships That Drive the War
Oct 14, 2020
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  • Elana DeLozier
  • Stephen Seche
Brief Analysis
Kuwait’s Precarious Mediation Role May Be Imperiled by the Emir’s Passing
Oct 5, 2020
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  • Elana DeLozier
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