Rory Miller
GU-Q Professor, Professor of International Politics, Director of Small States Research Program, Director of Energy Studies Certificate
Rory Miller is a native of Dublin, Ireland. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA, History, 1993), and King's College London (MA War Studies, 1994, PhD, 1998). Rory Miller is a Professor of International Politics, Director of the Small States Research Program, and Director of Energy Studies Program at Georgetown University in Qatar where he teaches and researches on regional and international security, including Gulf security, the security of small states and middle powers, alliances, maritime security, energy security, and external intervention theory. Prior to that, between 1999 and 2014, he was a member of the War Studies department and then head of the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Program at King’s College London. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in recent years he has held a visiting professorship in the War Studies department of King's College London (2014-17), and a Visiting Research Professorship at Trinity College Dublin (2020-21).
He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA) and he serves on several advisory boards, including the Foreign Policy Network of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). He has provided expertise and consultancy services to various government agencies and private organizations including NATO and has lectured and taught in a number of Defense and Staff Colleges as well as foreign ministries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Between 2019 and 2024, he was the lead PI on a Qatar National Research Fund multi-year funded research project on “Managing National Security Risk during and after the Blockade: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Qatar’s Energy Sector”. Since 2024, he has led on a three-year a Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI) project: “The Maritime Sector and Resilience-building in a Small State: The Qatar Case Study”. He is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series on "Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East". He is the author or editor of 11 books including Inglorious Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians (Columbia University Press, 2011), Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers: The Rise of the Arab Gulf (Yale University Press, 2016) and, most recently, Overcoming Smallness: Challenges and Opportunities for Small States in Global Affairs (Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press with Fahad Al-Marri). He has published extensively in academic and policy journals and the international media including Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The National Interest, and The Wall Street Journal. His media appearances include Al Jazeera Arabic; Al Jazeera English; Al Jazeera Mubasher; BBC America; BBC World Service; Bloomberg; CNBC Europe; CNN International; National Public Radio (NPR, US); RTE (Ireland); The Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); Turkish State Television (TRT); and Voice of America.