BA Oberlin 1973, PhD 1978 - both in economics

The Monetary History of Iran From the Safavids to the Qajars (I.B. Tauris, 2013, with Rudi Matthee and Willem Floor); Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout: U.S.-Israel Coordination (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2012, with David Makovsky); An Iranian Nuclear Breakout Is Not Inevitable (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2011); The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2010); Much Traction from Measured Steps: The Iranian Opposition, the Nuclear Issue, and the West (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2010); Eternal Iran: Contiuity and Chaos (Palgrave, 2005, with Michael Rubin)

U.S.-Iranian relations. Iranian foreign and security policy. Contemporary Iranian politics. Contemporary Iranian economy. Iranian economic history.

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Director of Research, Washington Institute for Near East Policy