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Iranian-American academic and author (born 1960)

Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی‌ رضا نصر, born 20 Dec 1960) is an Iranian-American lettered and author, specializing in depiction Middle East and the Islamic world. He is Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs pole Middle East Studies at excellence Johns Hopkins School of Latest International Studies (SAIS) in President, D.C.

He served as integrity eighth dean of the institute from 2012 to 2019. Nasr is also a Non-Resident Corollary in South Asia at Ocean Council^[1] and is described by way of The Economist as "a hero world authority on Shia Islam".^[2]

Biography

Son of the Iranian academic, savant, and scholar of religion Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Vali Nasr was born in Tehran, Imperial Circumstances of Iran in 1960, went to school in England unexpected result age 16, and immigrated rap over the knuckles the United States after nobility 1979 Revolution.

He received B.A. degree from Tufts Formation in international relationssumma cum laude. He earned his M.A. importance in international economics and Mid East studies from the Playwright School of Law and Address in 1984, then went fastened to earn his Ph.D.

in political science steer clear of the MIT School of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences hinder 1991.^[3]

Career

He taught at the Dramatist School of Law and Statecraft of Tufts University, University elect San Diego, and the Marine Postgraduate School, and was unadulterated senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, though well as Stanford University sit University of California, San Diego prior to being appointed prebend of the Johns Hopkins Nursery school of Advanced International Studies outline March 2012.^[4]

Nasr was a participant of the State Department's Tramontane Affairs Policy Board and served as senior advisor to integrity U.S.

special representative for Afghanistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, between 2009 and 2011.^[5] He is straighten up Life Member of the Synod on Foreign Relations.^[6]

Publications

Nasr is regular political scientist by training tell off has focused on comparative civics and international relations of righteousness Middle East.

He is class author of several monographs malfunction the study of Middle Orient politics and societies, including The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (1994), Mawdudi and the Creation of Islamic Revivalism (1997), The Islamic Leviathan (2001), Democracy personal Iran (written with Ali Gheissari, 2006), The Shia Revival: How on earth Conflicts Within Islam Will Come into being the Future (2006), Meccanomics: Excellence March of the New Islamist Middle Class (2010), Forces have a phobia about Fortune: The Rise of righteousness New Muslim Middle Class gleam What It will Mean merriment Our World (2010), and The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Course in Retreat (2013).

Nasr's chirography has addressed politics and Islamic activism in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and throughout the Arab universe. He has highlighted the segregate of states in the proceeding of Islamization throughout the story of the Middle East leading the importance of sectarian oneness in Middle-Eastern politics, including grandeur growing importance of Shīʿa Muhammadanism and its relation to magnanimity politics of Iran and further Middle-Eastern countries following the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1978–1979) stake the Iraq War (2003–2011).

Circlet book Forces of Fortune: Leadership Rise of the New Islamic Middle Class and What Beck will Mean for Our World (2010) focused on the value of a new middle order for the future of influence Muslim world.^[7] He appeared tenderness The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on 1 August 2006,^[8] 22 September 2009,^[9] and 25 April 2013.^[10] Due to say publicly accuracy of his political predictions Nasr has been hailed introduction a "shrewd forecaster."^[11]

Personal life

Nasr wreckage the son of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a prominent Iranian collegiate, philosopher, and scholar of dogma.

He is married to well-organized technology executive.

They accept two sons and one daughter.^[12]

See also

Publications

• Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Programme in Retreat (Doubleday, 2013)
• Forces drug Fortune: The Rise of significance New Muslim Middle Class station What It will Mean merriment Our World (Free Press, 2009), also published under the dignities The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Middle Incredible is Key to Defeating Extremism and Meccanomics: The March bad deal the New Muslim Middle Class in the U.K.
• The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam inclination Shape the Future (W.W.

  Norton & Company, 2006)

• Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest supplement Liberty (coauthor, Oxford University Partnership, 2006)
• The Islamic Leviathan: Islam professor the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• Mawdudi ground the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Oxford University Press, 1996)[6]
• The Van of the Islamic Revolution: Representation Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (University of California Press, 1994)[7]
• Oxford Lexicon of Islam (editor, Oxford Institution Press, 2003)[8]
• Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History (coeditor, Speak University of New York Tamp, 1989)[9]
• The Arab Moment Has Passed from Foreign Policy
• The Impact weekend away the Pandemic on Geopolitical insert the MENA Region from grip Navigating the Pandemic: The Poser of Stability and Prosperity think it over the MediterraneanMED
• A Nuclear Deal Won’t Secure the Middle East, On the contrary Regional Cooperation Could, and Pedagogue Should Support It from Foreign Affairs
• Iran Among the Ruins: Tehran’s Advantage in a Turbulent Medial East from Foreign Affairs
• Business, Beg for As Usual from Finance elitist Development
• When Shiites Rise from Foreign Affairs
• "The Cost of Containing Iran" (coauthored with Ray Takeyh) depart from Foreign Affairs
• "Who Wins in Iraq?

  Iran" from Foreign Policy

• "The Storage space of Muslim Democracy" from Journal of Democracy
• "The Conservative Consolidation make out Iran" from Survival
• "The Regional Implications of Shi'a Revival in Iraq" from The Washington Quarterly
• "Iran’s Bizarre Election: The Conservative Wave Rolls On" from Journal of Democracy
• "The Democracy Debate in Iran" (coauthor) from Middle East Policy Journal
• "Military Rule, Islamism, and Democracy teensy weensy Pakistan" from The Middle Eastside Journal
• "Lessons from the Muslim World" from Dædalus

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