Vali Nasr

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Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی نصر, born 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.

An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy. He is also a Senior Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2006.

The Wall Street Journal reported on February 9, 2009, that Richard Holbrooke has hired Nasr to advise the Obama Administration on US-Iran relations.[1]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Origin

He was born in 1960 in Tehran. His father, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, is an Islamic philosopher, historian of science, and a University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University. He was educated at Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in political science in 1991.

[edit] Work

Nasr is the author of The Shia Revival, The Islamic Leviathan, Democracy in Iran, The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan, and Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism. He has work on Islamic activism in Pakistan, and more recently also on Iran and the Arab world. His work on the role of states in Islamization and evolution of new democratic ideas in the Muslim world presented new analysis. He has been engaged in debates in the Muslim world on Islam and democracy and accommodating modernity. His most influential work has been on the importance of sectarian identity in Middle East politics and the growing importance of Shia politics following the Iraq war, which he was one of the first to identify. In August 2006, Nasr briefed George W. Bush on the dynamics of sectarian violence in Iraq.[2] He has also testified before the US Senate and advised members of both houses of the US Congress on Middle East issues. In 2007-08 he served as an adviser to Democratic presidential candidates. He appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the 22nd of September. [3]

[edit] Family

Nasr is married to Darya, a technology executive, and has three children, sons Amir and Hossein, and daughter Donia. They reside in Washington, DC.

[edit] Publications

Vali Nasr at the Comparative Strategic Culture Conference, 2005.
  • Forces of Fortune: The Rise of a New Muslim Middle Class and What It Means for Our World (Free Press, 2009)[2]
  • The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton & Company, 2006)[3]
  • Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (coauthor, Oxford University Press, 2006)[4]
  • The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001)[5]
  • Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Oxford University Press, 1996)[6]
  • The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (University of California Press, 1994)[7]
  • Oxford Dictionary of Islam (editor, Oxford University Press, 2003)[8]
  • Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History (coeditor, State University of New York Press, 1989)[9]
  • "When Shiites Rise" from Foreign Affairs
  • "The Cost of Containing Iran" (coauthored with Ray Takeyh) from Foreign Affairs
  • "Who Wins in Iraq? Iran" from Foreign Policy
  • "The Rise of Muslim Democracy" from Journal of Democracy
  • "The Conservative Consolidation in Iran" from Survival
  • "The Regional Implications of Shi'a Revival in Iraq" from The Washington Quarterly
  • "Iran’s Peculiar 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 in Pakistan" from The Middle East Journal
  • "Lessons from the Muslim World" from Dædalus

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "U.S. to Enlist Iran in Combating Afghan Drug Trade ", By JAY SOLOMON and YOCHI J. DREAZEN, February 9, 2009, Wall Street Journal
  2. ^ http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/15314024.htm
  3. ^ http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-22-2009/
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