Mark J. Gasiorowski (born October 9, 1954)
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at Tulane University
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in in the field of Middle East
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politics, Third World
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politics, and U.S. foreign policy
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.
He has served frequently as a consultant to the United States Department of State
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. In 2003, he testified before the 9-11 Commission
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(aka the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States). Journalist and academic Stephen Kinzer
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Reporting career
During the 198 ...
has called him "the most persistent" of "a small but dedicated group of scholars hohave devoted considerable effort to uncovering the truth about events surrounding the 1953 coup" in Iran, an event so important (Kinzer believes) it "defined all of subsequent Iranian history and reshaped the world in ways that only now becoming clear."
Education and career
Gasiorowski earned his B.A.
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in mathematics at the University of Chicago
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in 1976, his M.A.
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in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in 1980, and his Ph.D.
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in political science at the UNC in 1984.Louisiana State University
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for many years, as assistant professor (1984-1989), then associate professor (1989-1997), and then full professor (1997-2012).
Works
Books
* ''Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Fifth Edition''. Westview Press, 2007. Edited with David Long and Bernard Reich.
* ''Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran''. Syracuse University Press, 2004. Edited with Malcolm Byrne.
* ''U.S. Foreign Policy and the Shah: Building a Client State in Iran''. Cornell University Press, 1991.
Contributions
* Gasiorowski, Mark. 2008. “Government and Politics.” In ''A Country Study: Iran''. Washington: U.S. Library of Congress.
* “The New Aggressiveness in Iran’s Foreign Policy,” ''Middle East Policy'', Vol, 14, No, 2, Summer 2007, pp. 125–132.
* Gasiorowski, Mark, and Zaheer Poptani. 2006. “The Macroeconomic Consequences of Democratic Transition: Learning Processes in the Third and Fourth Waves of Democratization.” ''Studies in Comparative International Development'' 41(2): 33-61.
* “The Real Power in Tehran,” ''The Guardian'' (London), June 29, 2005.“The Real Power in Tehran,”
''The Guardian'', June 29, 2005]
References
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Louisiana State University faculty
Tulane University faculty
American political scientists
1954 births
Living people