Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Who calls the shots in Iran on economic policy, security, and domestic calls for reform? A look at the government’s organization chart indicates how complicated the answer is.
Sameer Lalwani is a senior advisor with the Special Competitive Studies Project and a non-resident senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. His research interests include deterrence, interstate rivalry, technology alliances, and Indo-Pacific security. He is a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations, and a contributing editor to War on the Rocks. Previously, he was a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he led work sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense on the India-China battlespace and US-India defense technology cooperation, including INDUS-X. He has previously been the director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, an adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow at the RAND Corporation. His work has been published in leading academic journals and analytical outlets. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from MIT.