Vali Nasr

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Vali Nasr

Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr (born December 20, 1960 in Tehran ) is an American political scientist, university lecturer, political advisor to the Democratic Party and a fellow of the Brookings Institution . He is considered an expert on the Middle East in general and his home country Iran in particular. Like his father, the philosopher Hossein Nasr , he is Shiite .

Life

Nasr's family had to leave the country after the Iranian Revolution and emigrated to the USA. He studied politics at the Fletcher School of Tufts University and did his doctorate in 1991 at MIT . He has been a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs , the Council on Foreign Relations' journal, since the 1990s .

From 2009 to 2011 he worked as an advisor to the US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke of the State Department , and has since been Dean at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University . He is a big critic of the lowering of the United States' Middle East engagement ("is not going too far to say that American foreign policy has become completely subservient to tactical domestic political considerations") and is also against the US sanctions against Iran. The Europeans are also far too passive.

Works (excerpt)

  • Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism . Oxford University Press, 1996
  • The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power . Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (co-author). Oxford University Press, 2006
  • The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam will Shape the Future . WW Norton, 2006
  • Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean for Our World . Free Press, 2009. (partly under the titles: The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Middle Class is Key to Defeating Extremism and Meccanomics: The March of the New Muslim Middle Class )
  • 2013 - Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat (Doubleday)

Web links

  • Profile at Johns Hopkins University

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roger Cohen: The End of Foreign Policy . In: NY Times , February 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Nasr, Vali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran