A lecture by Vali Nasr, professor of international politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for Bloomberg View. Dr. Nasr is the former senior advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of State, and a prominent expert on the Middle East. He is the author of Forces of Fortune: The Rise of a New Muslim Middle Class and What It Means for our World (2009) and The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future (2006).
--Stanford University
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