About
Peter Leddy is a PhD student in the Department of International Relations at LSE. His academic interests include the history, culture, and politics of the Middle East, as well as armed resistance, revolution, irregular warfare, and the intersection of these issues with geopolitics, strategy, and US foreign policy choices.
Mr Leddy is a former career employee of the US Department of Defense, where he served multiple deployments to Iraq and throughout the Middle East in support of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations. His assignments included the FBI Washington Field Office, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He last served at the US Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Mr Leddy received his BA in Political Science from Tulane University, an MA in International Affairs from the George Washington University, an MPS in Arabic Language from the University of Maryland and the University of Damascus (Syria), and an MA in Defense and Security Studies from the US Naval War College.
Research topic
Revolt in the Sinai: Insurgency in Egypt 2004-2023
Academic supervisors
Research cluster affiliation
Security and Statecraft research cluster