Elan Journo
Elan Y. Journo is an Israeli writer, specializing in American foreign policy. He is an Objectivist and a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and its Director of Policy Research.Elan Journo was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and grew up in the United Kingdom. He studied at King's College London from 1994 to 1997, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. He then earned a Master of Arts degree in Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London, studying international relations. Journo lives in Irvine, California. He has Israeli citizenship.Career
Journo joined the Ayn Rand Institute in 1999, becoming a core-courses instructor at the Institute's Objectivist Academic Center in 2005. In 2009, he was the editor of, and the main contributor to, Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, a collection of essays arguing for an Objectivist approach to foreign policy. In 2010, he was appointed by the Institute as the Director of Policy Research, specializing in foreign policy. Journo was a 2013 Lincoln Fellow at The Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank.
Journo has contributed articles to Arutz Sheva, The Journal of International Security Affairs, Foreign Policy, Fox News, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, the Middle East Quarterly, and others. He has also made television and radio appearances on outlets such as Fox News and NPR.
