Katharine Gorka
Katharine Cornell Gorka is the President of the Council on Global Security, a think tank, and the president of Thread Knowledge Group, a consulting firm, and is a well-known figure among anti-Muslim campaigners.
Previously she served as the Director of the Westminster Institute (which she helped establish in 2009);[1] the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security; and the Central and Eastern Europe, National Forum Foundation. Previously she was a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute. Gorka lived in Hungary for 12 years where she co-founded with her husband, Sebastian Gorka, the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS), which focused on issues of economic reform and the problems associated with former communists and secret police in post-communist democracies.[1]
Gorka has been a guest on many TV news shows.[2] On December 4, 2015, she was a member of a panel at the Heritage Foundation talking about the Obama administration's counterterrorism policy and strategy,[3] She co-edited Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism.[4] Ayaan Hirsi Ali said in a March 19, 2015 New York Times interview that if she could require the US President to read one book, it would be Fighting the Ideological War.[5]
Gorka writes articles for Breitbart News Network.[6] On March 17, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz announced Gorka would be a member of his national security coalition which would advise him on foreign policy issues.[7][8]
Family
Gorka is a direct descendant of George Cornell, the founder of the Cornell Iron Works company (now called Cornell Iron[9]), which became the largest iron works in the United States and worked with the leading architects of their day to take New York's buildings from four stories in the 1850s to thirty stories by 1899.[1][10] Gorka wrote a book about the company called, Cornell Iron Works: The History of an Enduring Family Business.[1]
Gorka is the daughter of M. Keen Cornell[11] and Kathleen Ferenbach Ryon.[12][13] Katharine Gorka married Sebastian Gorka on July 6, 1996.[12]
Education
Gorka is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where she received a Master of Science in Economic and International Political Economy in 1987. She received a Diploma in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1986. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in 1982 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Publications
- With Sebastian Gorka, "ISIS: The Threat to the United States" Threat Knowledge Group, November 2015[14][15]
- With Patrick Sookhdeo Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism (ISBN 978-1-62157-457-6), Isaac Publishing, 2012.
- "The Flawed Science Behind America's Counter-Terrorism Strategy" in Council on Global Security, October 2014.[16][17]
- "The war between Al Qaeda and ISIS–and what it means for America" in The Journal of International Security Affairs, Fall/Winter 2014.[18]
- Cornell Iron Works: The History of an Enduring Family Business (ISBN 9780615793498), Cornell Iron Works, 2013.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Gorka, Katharine Cornell (2013-05-04). Cornell Iron Works: The History of an Enduring Family Business. Cornell Iron Works, Incorporated. ISBN 9780615793498.
- ↑ Opinion Journal: The Threat of ISIS in the U.S., retrieved 2016-06-03
- ↑ "Discussion on President Obama's Counterterrorism Strategy". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "BOOK REVIEW: 'Fighting the Ideological War'". The Washingtion Times. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
- ↑ "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book - NYTimes.com". Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "Katie Gorka, Author at Breitbart". Breitbart. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "Ted Cruz Announces National Security Coalition | Ted Cruz for Senate". Ted Cruz for Senate. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "VIDEO: Cruz National Security Adviser: Terrorism Must Be Fought at a Local Level - Gretawire". Gretawire. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "Our Story". www.cornellcookson.com. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "J. B. & W. W. Cornell". www.waltergrutchfield.net. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Obituary Collection - 91". www.genealogybuff.com. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- 1 2 "WEDDINGS;Katharine Cornell, Sebestyen Gorka". The New York Times. 1996-07-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "Mortimer Ryon's Obituary on Scranton Times". Scranton Times. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "ISIS: The Threat to the United States". Threat Knowledge Group. 2015-11-21. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "Islamic State Radicalizes 'Thousands' in United States". Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "New White Paper from the Council on Global Security | Council on Global Security". Council on Global Security. 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "The Poison Tree of Jihad". National Review Online. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ↑ "The war between Al Qaeda and ISIS--and what it means for America—The latest analysis from Katharine Gorka | Council on Global Security". Council on Global Security. 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2016-06-03.