Daniel J. Samet is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy. He is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously was the George P. Shultz Fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute. 

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Daniel previously worked for the Office of Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), the Atlantic Council, and the National Endowment for Democracy. He has also been a fellow at the Rumsfeld Foundation, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the the Clements Center for National Security, and the Tikvah Fund. 

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Daniel's writing has appeared in National Review, Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. magna cum laude from Davidson College, where he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. 

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He is the author of U.S. Defense Policy toward Israel: A Cold War History (Routledge).