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Shireen T. Hunter
Director Islam Program
Expertise: Iran; the Persian Gulf; Southwest Asia; Islamic
revivalism; Middle East political and economic issues; the
Transcaucasus, Central Asia.
Shireen Hunter is the director of the Islam Program at CSIS. She
previously served as director of the Mediterranean Studies
program with the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels
(1994-1998), deputy director of the Middle East Program CSIS
(1983-1993), as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution,
and research fellow at the Harvard Center for International
Affairs. Hunter is the author of many books, including Islam in
Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security, with Jeffrey
Thomas and Alexander Melikishvili (M.E. Sharpe, 2004), Islam:
Europe’s Second Religion, ed. (Praeger, 2002), The Future of
Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful
Coexistence? (Praeger/CSIS, 1998), Central Asia Since
Independence (Praeger/CSIS, 1996), The Transcaucasus in
Transition: Nation-Building and Conflict (CSIS, 1994), Iran
After Khomeini (CSIS, 1992), Iran and the World: Continuity in a
Revolutionary Decade (Indiana University Press, 1990), and The
Politics of Revivalism (Indiana University Press, 1988), as well
as numerous chapters in edited volumes. Her articles have
appeared in leading journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign
Policy, Current History, the Middle East Journal, Security
Dialogue, the International Spectator, Relazioni Internazionali,
the Third World Quarterly, Current History, the Washington
Quarterly, the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, and SAIS
Review, as well as prominent newspapers, including the Los
Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. She holds a
Ph.D. in political science from the Institut Universitaire des
Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva and an M.A. from the
London School of Economics and Political Science. She speaks
French, Persian, and Azeri Turkish.
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