Nathaniel Rosenblatt is a DPhil candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford and a Fellow at the New America International Security Program. He is researching local and social influences on how foreign fighters were recruited to fight in the Syrian civil war. He has ten years of professional experience as an consultant and research analyst focused on the Middle East and North Africa, with clients including the World Bank and USAID. He graduated with a BA and MA in Economics, International Relations, and Middle East Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and with an MSc with distinction in Sociology from Oxford University.