Cameron S. Brown has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), an M.A. on the Modern Middle East from the Hebrew University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois. His work focuses on international security, with research interests including civil–military relations, war onset and termination, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and US foreign policy and public opinion.

His dissertation explored why states are far more reticent to sign peace treaties than previously. He is a former Neubauer Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv University Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), and a regular contributor to the Jerusalem Post. His academic articles have appeared in Review of International Studies, Middle East Journal, Strategic Assessment, Israel Affairs, The Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal (MERIA), Turkish Studies, and several edited volumes.