Stephen Zunes: The U. S. & Iran: Nuclear Weapons, Regime Change and the Threat o

Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. He serves as a senior policy analyst and Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and as an associate editor of Peace Review. In 2002, he won recognition from the Peace and Justice Studies Association as Peace Scholar of the Year. Dr. Zunes has made frequent visits to the Middle East, where he has met with top government officials, academics, journalists and opposition leaders.

Professor Zunes is the author of scores of articles for scholarly and general readership on Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, international terrorism, social movements, and human rights. He is the principal editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell Publishers, 1999) and the author of the highly-acclaimed Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003) and the forthcoming Western Sahara: Nationalism and Conflict in Northwest Africa (Syracuse University Press.)