Afshon Ostovar

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Afshon Ostovar is the author of Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Oxford University Press, 2016), and an assistant professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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Sectarianism and Conflict in the Middle East
November 14, 2017

A discussion on what’s driving the spread of Sunni-Shi’a identity politics in today’s Middle East and how sectarianism is contributing to the region’s instability and conflicts.

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Sectarian Dilemmas in Iranian Foreign Policy: When Strategy and Identity Politics Collide

While Iran’s foreign policy writ large exists mostly beyond the confines of confessionalism, this much is clear: as Iran’s neighborhood has become more sectarian, so has its behavior.

  • Afshon Ostovar
· November 30, 2016