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Undated:
Sebastian Lukács Gorka (born 1970)[1]
is a British-born
Hungarian-American military and intelligence analyst, former dean at
National Defense University, who served as
deputy assistant to US President
Donald
Trump in 2017.[2]
He served from January 2017 until August 25, 2017. He is currently a Fox News
contributor,[3]
and broadcasts a
Salem Radio show.[4]
Gorka was born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents, lived in Hungary from
1992 to 2008, and in 2012 became a naturalized American citizen.[5]
Gorka has written for a variety of publications, is generally considered
politically
conservative[6][7]
and has ties to the
alt-right,[8][9][10][11][12]
though he rejects the term, calling it "bogus" and "a new label for nationalists
or irredentist bigots".[13]
During his time in the
Trump administration, Gorka gave a series of combative interviews with the
press in which he defended the administration's positions on national security
and
foreign policy. Various national security scholars in academic and
policymaking circles have characterized Gorka as
fringe. Some critics have challenged his academic credentials, his views on
Islam and
radicalization—as well as his motives for identifying with the
Order of Vitéz or supporting the EU-banned
Hungarian Guard.
Shortly after taking a position in the Trump administration in early 2017, Gorka
drew criticism from multiple commentators in academia and politics, who
characterized him as a fringe figure in academic and policy-making circles.[6][7][17][53][54][55][56]
Business Insider politics editor Pamela Engel has described Gorka as
being "widely disdained within his own field."[7][57]
A number of academics and policymakers questioned Gorka's knowledge of foreign
policy issues, his academic credentials and his professional behavior.[6][7][53][55][58][56][59]
Andrew Reynolds, professor of
political science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, questioned the validity of
Gorka's
doctoral degree, noting discrepancies between how doctorates are normally
awarded and how Gorka's was awarded. Reynolds said that the evaluations of each
referee on Gorka's
PhD committee was "a page of generalized comments – completely at odds with
the detailed substantive and methodological evaluations that I've seen at every
Ph.D defence I've been on over the last twenty years." According to Reynolds, no
less than two of the three referees only had
Bachelor of Arts degrees, and one of the referees had published with Gorka
previously, in violation of the academic expectation that reviewers have no
personal or other form of interest in the success of a candidate's thesis.[60]
[note 1]
Georgetown University associate professor
Daniel
Nexon reviewed Gorka's PhD thesis, describing it as "inept" and saying "It
does not deploy evidence that would satisfy the most basic methodological
requirements for a PhD in the US".[55]
The journal
Terrorism and Political Violence had never used Gorka as a reviewer
because, according to the associate editor, he "is not considered a terrorism
expert by the academic or policy community."[61]
In August 2017, Gorka falsely asserted that the
Obama administration "invented" the term "lone-wolf
terrorism", when in fact the term had been widely used in the academic
literature, media and by governments long before
Barack
Obama took office.[62]
Responding to his academic critics, Gorka said that there was an ongoing "proxy
war" and that others were attacking him as a way to attack Trump.[63]
In February 2017,
Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, voiced his reservations about Gorka
influencing policy in the White House, saying: "Gorka does not have much of a
reputation in serious academic or policymaking circles. He has never published
any scholarship of significance and his views on Islam and US national security
are extreme even by Washington standards. His only real 'qualification' was his
prior association with
Breitbart News, which would be a demerit in any other administration."[64]
According to
BuzzFeed, Gorka was unable to obtain a security clearance to work in the
Hungarian Parliament.[65]
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