Vali Nasr  

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Vali Reza Nasr (born 20 December 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and author specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic world. He is currently Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and a Senior Fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution. He is described by The Economist as "a leading world authority on Shia Islam".

Publications

• Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat (Doubleday, 2013)
• Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It will Mean for Our World (Free Press, 2009), also published 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 in the U.K.
• The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton & Company, 2006)
• Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (coauthor, Oxford University Press, 2006)
• The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• 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