Dr. Hassan Ahmadian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Iran Project, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Ahmadian is an Assistant Professor of Middle East and North Africa studies at the University of Tehran, and is also a Middle East security and politics fellow at the Center for Strategic Research, Tehran.
Societal (In)Security in the Middle East: Radicalism as a Reaction?
How does societal insecurity help organisations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS flourish within Arab states? Ever since the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, Arab societies have remained vulnerable to cross-border…