Shireen Hunter

Shireen Hunter was 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.