Jeffrey Martini is a senior Middle East analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, where he works on political and security issues in the Arab World. He spent a year as the North Africa lead at the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations in 2014 and 2015. He has published on civil-military relations in Egypt, generational divides within the Muslim Brotherhood, changes in the regional security environment and intra-GCC relations.