Doran is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute,[2] which he joined in 2014.[3] Before that, he was a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Politics at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was a visiting professor, at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service. Before returning to academia, he was appointed deputy assistant secretary for public diplomacy at the U.S. Department of Defense in April 2007 after being the senior director for Near East and North African affairs at the National Security Council from 2005 to 2007. His teaching career began at the University of Central Florida and he later joined the Near East Studies Department at Princeton University as assistant professor until he was appointed to the George W. Bush administration.
Casey Michel, head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, has criticized Doran's assertion that Azerbaijan under dictator Ilham Aliyev has become a "bastion of diversity and tolerance", writing that that it was true "in the same way that, say, Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, and Mobutu's Zaire were also 'bastions of diversity and tolerance.'"[7]
Books
Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question. 1999. Oxford University Press. ISBN0195160088.
"What Carter Owes Begin". In Menachem Begin's Zionist Legacy. 2015. Koren Publishers. ISBN978-1592644155.
Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East. 2016. Free Press. ISBN978-1451697759.