Jordan Tama is Professor in the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University, Principal at Bridging the Gap, and Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. His research examines the politics, processes, and tools of U.S. foreign policy. His most recent books are Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy: Cooperation in a Polarized Age (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge, co-edited with Gordon M. Friedrichs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
He has served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives, a foreign policy speechwriter, and a presidential campaign foreign policy advisor. He received a B.A. from Williams College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.