Vali Nasr

Vali Nasr
Vali Nasr
Born 1960
Tehran, Iran
Nationality Iranian American
Fields Political science
International relations
Institutions The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Alma mater The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
MIT

Vali Nasr (Persian: ولی‌رضا نصر, born 1960) is a leading academic and influential expert on the Muslim world issues, and best-selling author and commentator on Middle East affairs and Islamic politics. He is a Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution, and a columnist with Bloomberg View. He is a Member of the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and a member of Board of Trustees of Rockefeller Brother Fund and the National Democratic Institute.

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 was also a Senior Fellow with The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University between 2007 and 2009. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2006.

Between 2009 and 2011 he served in the Obama administration as Senior Advisor to Richard Holbrooke, the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.[1]

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Biography

He was born in 1960 in Tehran. 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.

Work

Nasr is the author of Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean for Our World, 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 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. His book, Forces of Fortune focused on the importance of a new middle class to future of the Muslim world, which presaged the role of the middle class in democratic uprisings of 2011. Dr. Vali Nasr was appointed to co-direct President Obama's foreign policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He has advised senior policy makers including the president, and 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. In 2009 he joined the Obama administration as Senior Advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Since 2008 he has been Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.

He appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the 1st August, 2006[2] and the 22nd of September, 2009.[3]

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.

Publications

  • Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean 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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