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Melinda Haas

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Melinda Haas is Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. Haas studies law and international security, with her current research focusing on how congressional regulation can have unintended effects on the types of covert action used in U.S. foreign policy. Her other research interests include foreign policy decision-making, intelligence and secrecy, as well as international and constitutional law. She is also interested in archival work in qualitative and mixed-method research.
Ideas

The Trump administration’s global campaign against ‘radical left terrorism’ is built on a national security memo

NSPM-7 marks a major conceptual shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy, departing from approaches that primarily targeted foreign threats.