This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Alex Vatanka is Senior Fellow, specializing in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran, at the Middle East Institute. Mr. Vatanka is also a senior fellow in Middle East Studies at the US Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS) and teaches as an adjunct professor at Defense Institute of Security Cooperation Studies (DISCS).. He is the author of “Iran-Pakistan: Security, Diplomacy, and American Influence” (2015) and is presently working on his second book, “The Making of Iranian Foreign Policy: Contested Ideology, Personal Rivalries and the Domestic Struggle to Define Iran’s Place in the World.”