Speaker Information

Global Issues 2010

Mohsen Milani

Dr. 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. Born in Tehran, he completed his high school and higher education in the U.S., and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California. His book, "The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revolution", has been used as required reading in many universities in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Canada. The Persian translation of his book is one of the required readings for an exit course students must complete before graduating from the institutions of higher learning in Iran.

Professor Milani has written more than fifty 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: Understanding Iran’s U.S. Policy" (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2009), "Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy" (in "Contemporary Iran" Oxford University Press, 2009), "Iran’s Policy toward Afghanistan" (Middle East Journal, 2006), "Iran- Iraq Relations during the Pahlavi Era, 1921-79" (Encyclopedia Iranica, 2006). He has served as a research fellow at Harvard University, Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College, and the Foscari University in Venice, Italy.