David Weinberg is a doctoral student focusing on international relations, security studies, and comparative politics in the MIT Department of Political Science. He is affiliated with the MIT Security Studies Program and his research interests include comparative foreign policy, IR theory, policy planning and decision-making, legitimacy, credibility, economic sanctions, and regional security in the Middle East and Northeast Asia.
Before coming to MIT, David served as a Democratic Professional Staff Member for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, covering the Middle East region, as well as some issues pertaining to Greece, Cyprus, and the south Caucasus. He has also assisted the policy department of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on issues of religious freedom and human rights in the Middle East and East Asia and volunteered as a rapporteur at conferences in support of the Middle East peace process and Gulf security. He has studied in Turkey, Israel, and Egypt and is conversational in Arabic, has moderate comprehension of Hebrew, and basic skills in Turkish.
“Iraqi Resettlement: Why Congress will Act” in University of Denver’s Human Rights and Human Welfare (November 2007) and reprinted in the Yale Politic (February 2008).
"America the generous or America the stingy?" first-person political analysis, Daily Star (Lebanon), September 14, 2007.
"Re-open the U.S. Embassy in Tehran," op-ed, Ha'aretz, August 24, 2007.
"Congress, Shallow Sanctions, and the Syria Accountability Act," Politica (UC Berkeley undergraduate journal of political science), Spring 2006.
