Marsha B. Cohen is an independent scholar, writer, news analyst and lecturer. She taught International Relations at Florida International University for over a decade, and has been teaching for the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School since 1998. She earned her PhD in International Relations from Florida International University and her BA in Political Philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She writes for the Foreign Policy site Lobe Log, and is a frequent speaker on the historical and cultural background of contemporary political issues.