Amin Tarzi is a Professor of Strategic Studies at Marine Corps War College, in Quantico, Virginia; a Politician in Residence at University for Southern California’s Capital Campus in Washington, DC; and an Adjunct Professor of International Relations and Government at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Tarzi has published more than 50 academic works and over a 100 policy pieces in with focus on Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, NATO, hybrid actors, and major power competition; evolving competitions and contestations in the Gulf, the Red Sea, and Eastern Mediterranean regions; U.S. national security and interests in the Middle East and its surrounding maritime domains; proliferation of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems; and historiography and historical narratives. His most recent publications include “The Geopolitics of Iran” in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics, ed. Zak Cope (Palgrave McMillian, 2024); “Navigating Complexities: Teaching Israel Studies in the Professional Military Education Context” in Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field, eds. Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2024); and “Three Decades of US Intervention in the Mediterranean Region: Limits of the Counterterrorism Approach to Stabilization,” Confluencés Méditerranée No. 123 (2022). Currently, he is working on a book, co-authored with Professor Robert D. McChesney, on Afghan historiography; a chapter on geopolitics of the Gulf; and an introduction to an anthology of the U.S. Marine Corps’ involvement in the counterinsurgency efforts of the post-9/11 campaigns. He has keynoted, lectured, and presented papers in four languages in 37 countries on subjects, including security, geopolitics, international relations, strategic assessments, history and historical narratives, and U.S. foreign policy.
