Keren Sasson is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Davis Institute for International Relations. Her PhD dissertation examined the contribution of regional organizations to the evolution and configuration of frameworks of regional security order in the developing world (focusing particularly on regional organizations from the Arab Middle East and Latin America). Her current studies focus on a comparative analysis of counter-terrorism strategies (Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa) and touch upon the role of strategic culture in shaping the security behavior of small states (with a special focus on the Arabian Peninsula).