Month: June 2012

Martin Sieff
Chief Global Analyst, The Globalist Research Center | Editor-at-Large, The Globalist

Martin Sieff is Chief Global Analyst at The Globalist Research Center and Editor-at-Large at The Globalist.

For the past decade, he has been chief news analyst for United Press International and is its former Managing Editor for International Affairs. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting.

He is the author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East” (Regnery, 2008), the upcoming “Shifting Superpowers: The U.S.-China-India Relationship in the 21st Century” (Cato, 2009) and the upcoming “Cycles of Change: The Eras of U.S. Political History” and “War and Peace in the 21st Century.”

Mr. Sieff has covered conflicts in his native Northern Ireland, Israel and the West Bank, Indonesia, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Baltic states. He has also reported from China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and more than 40 other nations.

Mr. Sieff led UPI’s political coverage of the 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential election campaigns. From May 2005 to July 2007 he was UPI’s National Security Correspondent — and, from October 2003 to May 2005, he was its Chief Political Correspondent.

From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Sieff was Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times. He was the paper’s Soviet and East European correspondent covering the collapse of communism for six years from 1986 to 1992 and from 1992 to 1994 its State Department correspondent.

Mr. Sieff has been a columnist for The Globalist.com since 2002 and has appeared as an expert on Asian security affairs and the Middle East on National Public Radio, the Fox News Channel and C-SPAN. His work has been published in The American Conservative, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Review and National Review Online and many other publications.

Mr. Sieff is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he covered the conflict as a young journalist for the Belfast Telegraph and the Belfast News-Letter from 1980 to 1985.

Mr. Sieff received his B.A. and M.A in modern history from Oxford University in 1972 and 1976. He did graduate work in Middle East studies at the London School of Economics from 1973 to 1976.

Mr. Sieff lives with his wife and three children in Maryland. He is a U.S. and Irish citizen.

Recent contributions: The Unfashionably Successful Mr. Putin    David Cameron: Embracing Europe in Churchill’s Footsteps    Seven Billion Humans: The World Fritz Haber Made    A Transatlantic Reversal of Fortune    Lessons for Libya from 1911    Britain’s Tabloid Cancer    Germanica: The German Love Affair with America