Vali R. Nasr -- Professor of International Politics at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Vali Nasr is a Middle East scholar, foreign policy adviser and commentator on international relations. His most recent book, "The Dispensable Nation" deals with the implications of the Obama administration’s foreign policy on American strategic interests. His previous books, "Forces of Fortune" and "The Shia Revival" examined the postwar sectarian violence in Iraq and the Arab Spring uprising, and contributed to US policy formulated in response to those events. Prior to being named Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS, Nasr was a professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. From 2009 to 2011, he was the special adviser to the President's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; he served on the faculties of the Naval Postgraduate School, Stanford University, the University of California, San Diego and the University of San Diego; he was a Carnegie scholar and a senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He also served as an adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. Nasr is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
瓦利·R·納斯爾 —— 約翰斯·霍普金斯大學高級國際研究學院國際政治學教授
瓦利·R·納斯爾（Vali R Nasr）是一位中東學者、外交政策顧問和國際關係評論員。他最近的著作《可有可無的國度》（The Dispensable Nation）探討了奧巴馬政府外交政策對美國戰略利益的影響。他此前出版的著作《財富的力量》（Forces of Fortune）和《什葉派的重新崛起》（The Shia Revival）檢視了二戰後伊拉克的宗派暴力衝突以及「阿拉伯之春」運動，這兩本書對於美國為應對這些事件出台的政策都產生了重要影響。在被任命為約翰斯·霍普金斯大學高級國際研究學院院長之前，納斯爾曾擔任塔夫茨大學弗萊徹法律和外交學院國際政治學教授。2009年至2011年期間，他曾任美國總統阿富汗和巴基斯坦問題特別代表特別顧問；他還曾在美國海軍研究生院、斯坦福大學、加利福尼亞大學聖地亞哥分校以及聖地亞哥大學擔任教職；他曾是卡內基學者和哈佛大學肯尼迪政府學院高級研究員。他還曾在外交關係委員會中東研究項目擔任客座高級研究員以及布魯金斯學會外交政策高級研究員。納斯爾是外交關係委員會終身成員。他在麻省理工學院獲得了政治學博士學位。