Academic Year 2009-2010: Upcoming Lectures

Reflections on U.S.-Iran Relations
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th floor, The Fletcher School
Speaker: Mohsen M. Milani, Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida

Speaker Biography

Mohsen M. Milani is Professor of Politics and Chair of the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He has served as a research fellow at Harvard University, Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College, and the Foscari University in Venice, Italy.

Milani is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences on Iran and the Persian Gulf. His advice regarding Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf has been solicited by private and governmental entities. He has been interviewed or quoted by CNN, ABC Nightline Live, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde (France), The Economist (UK), BBC, Der Spiegel (Germany), Rheinischer Merkur (Germany), Chuo-Koron (Japan), The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, To the Point, Al Jazeera TV, AlhurraTV, Publico (Portugal), Avvenenire (Italy), Forbes, CBS News, Fox News, Toronto Star (Canada), Voice of America, The Christian Science Monitor, and many more.

Milani has written more than fifty academic articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries about the Persian Gulf, Iran’s revolution, and Iran’s foreign and security policies. His latest publications include "Tehran’s Take" (Foreign Affairs), "Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy" (in Contemporary Iran, Oxford University Press), "Iran's policy toward Afghanistan" (Middle East Journal), "Iran-Iraq Relations during the Pahlavi Era, 1921-79" (Encyclopedia Iranica), and "The Tehran Hostage Crisis 1979" (Encyclopedia Iranica). He is the Book Series Editor on "Governance and International Relations in the Middle East" for the University of Florida Press. Milani’s book, The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has been required reading in many universities in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Canada, and Iran. He is currently working on a book project about Iran's regional policies.

Born in Tehran, Milani completed high school and his higher education in the U.S., and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.

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