Theocracy, Democracy, and the Conservative Consolidation in Iran
A Lecture By Vali Nasr
Friday, February 9, 2007
McShain Lounge, McCarthy Hall
Vali Nasr is Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. He joined NPS in 1993 after teaching at the University of San Diego, University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University. He is the author of Democracy in Iran (Oxford University Press, 2006); The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001), and many other publications. Dr. Nasr teaches courses on Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, South Asia Iran and Political Islam. Dr. Nasr earned his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1991), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (MALD, 1984), and Tufts University (BA, 1983).