in economics from Santa Barbara, his Master's degree in public policy from Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA.
His dissertation was on "the limits to domestic influence on U.S. Middle East Policy".
[6] He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine from 1986 to 1987, researching the rescue by Israel of Ethiopian Jews from the Sudan, known as Operation Moses.
He has been interviewed on Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, Al-Jazeera, The Jenny Jones Show and other media outlets.
[10][11] In 2013, he was on the Algemeiner's list of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life for his work.