to be growing Soviet Union involvement with countries in the region, particularly Iraq. In 1981 Kemp joined the Reagan administration and was appointed as Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council. Two years later, in 1983, he was promoted to Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Kemp advised the President on potential conflicts facing the United States in the region, and was involved in decisions on policy for the Lebanon, the Arab-Israeli dispute, the emerging American presence in the Persian Gulf, and the war in Afghanistan. Leaving the White House in January 1985, Kemp worked for a year at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, and then held a nine-year tenure at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. At Carnegie he ran the Middle East Arms Control Program and published and co-authored several books on Middle East security and what he asserted to be growing problems between the United States and Iran. In 1995, Kemp assumed his current position at the Center for the National Interest (formerly the Nixon Center), where he has continued to publish studies on the contemporary Middle East. He also published a textbook with Robert Harkavy, Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East (). Kemp has appeared in the media commenting on foreign affairs, particularly on issues concerning the Middle East and US security. A common focus of his work is what he regards as the growing importance of China and India in the Middle East. In 2006, he wrote an essay summarizing his basic thesis, “The East Moves West” in the journal The National Interest. A book of the same name was published in 2010. Works The Control of the Middle East Arms Race, Brookings Institution Press (October 1991), Forever Enemies?: American Policy & the Islamic Republic of Iran, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (December 1993) Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace by Geoffrey Kemp and Jeremy Pressman, 1996, The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East, Geoffrey Kemp, 2012, References External links "Geoffrey Kemp", Charlie Rose, September 11, 1996 United States presidential advisors Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford The Fletcher School at Tufts University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (living people) English emigrants to the United States People educated at Caterham