Chris Fair is an assistant professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow with the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point. She previously served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and as a senior research associate in USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. She is the author of Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States.