Ali Ansari

Ali Ansari is the director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews.


Essays

Security

The Revolution Will Be Mercantilized

| 02.11.10

Iran is degenerating into a security state, with the Revolutionary Guard Corps at the helm. The fight for supremacy among the hard-line elite can only lead to a crisis within the Iranian state.

Security

Symposium: Great Powers in Wonderland

| 02.29.08

Whither American hegemony? A glimpse of the multipolar world to come.

Commentary

Society

The Mafia State

| 02.19.10

Iran is already a military dictatorship. But the Revolutionary Guard is not a junta. It is a business conglomerate with guns.

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May 23, 2013