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# Foreign Policy and the American Constitution 

Malou Innocent is a Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and her primary research interests include Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues and U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China. She has appeared as a guest analyst on CNN, BBC News, Fox News Channel, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, CNBC Asia, and Reuters. Innocent has published reviews and articles on national security and international affairs in journals such as *Survival*, *Congressional Quarterly*, and *Harvard International Review*. She has also written for *Foreign Policy*, *Wall Street Journal Asia*, *Christian Science Monitor*, *Armed Forces Journal*, the *Guardian*, *Huffington Post*, the *Washington Times*, and other outlets both in the United States and overseas. She earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Mass Communications and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. 

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