Marsin Alshamary

Delighted that my book Iran's Grand Strategy is on @gideonrachman.bsky.social list for Financial Times Best Summer Books 2025 🙏🏽https://www.ft.com/content/b649f946-5878-43d8-9af8-c63bc0f51c9b

23.06.2025 16:51 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

How the US may join the war between Iran and Israel Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, President Donald Trump has said he’ll decide whether to join the war within two weeks. How entangled might the country become in a foreign war? A...

Talking to Economist on definitions of victory and how the US may join the war between Iran and Israel www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

21.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Iraq’s search for security and sovereignty after Assad’s collapse Iraq must recalibrate its relationship with a weakened Iran, in dialogue with the new Trump administration.

My first piece for 2025, co-authored with @marsin.bsky.social for @brookings.edu.

www.brookings.edu/articles/ira...

21.01.2025 19:06 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The Protest to Parliament Pipeline | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs In the lead up to the October 2021 federal elections, the streets of Baghdad were lined with posters of female candidates. Some were familiar faces with clear political baggage and history, like Sara ...

Excited to share my latest paper for HKS. I am thankful to the International Development Research Centre in supporting this research.

The Protest to Parliament Pipeline: Investigating the Link Between Activism and Women’s Political Participation in Iraq www.belfercenter.org/publication/...

23.07.2024 20:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A scramble for legitimacy: Iraq’s political elites since the October 2019 protests | Clingendael Iraqi political elites exhibited a variety of responses to the 2019 October protests, the largest demonstrations in post-2003 Iraq.

A little later than I would have liked, but between teaching & the war in Gaza, you can understand the delay. Find my second report for Clingendael, examining whether Tishreen protests had an impact on the behavior of Iraqi political elites.

www.clingendael.org/publication/...

22.05.2024 17:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Proxy battles: Iraq, Iran, and the turmoil in the Middle East The cycle of escalation in the Middle East since 7 October means Iraq has once again found itself a staging ground for Iranian-US conflict. But the relationship between Iraq and Iran is complex and…

With the recent escalation in the Middle East, my latest policy paper for @ecfr.bsky.social provides a lens through which to understand Iraqi-Iranian relations.

ecfr.eu/publication/...

16.04.2024 14:53 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

A seminal book on the Iraq war that will inform generations to come. Released today: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

You can tune into the virtual book launch with @hamzehhadad.bsky.social & @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social here: www.cnas.org/events/virtu...

01.03.2024 14:56 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Iraq: Signs of Stability in a Volatile Region Regional spillover from the war between Hamas and Israel may test Iraqis' newfound confidence in their political and national institutions.

Interesting numbers from Gallup on Iraq. PM Sudani with the highest approval ratings of any Iraqi premier since tracking began in 2012. Also perceptions more negative amongst citizens in Iraqi Kurdistan than the rest of Iraq. Realities have flipped from a decade ago. news.gallup.com/poll/610355/...

18.02.2024 17:58 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

US confronts ‘Axis’: Who are Iran’s allies? Can they be deterred? Alongside the war in Gaza, Iran’s regional allies and U.S. forces have engaged in scores of attacks and retaliations. Both the U.S. and Iran say they want to avert a wider war, but the clashes’ in...

I’m quoted in this article by The Christian Science Monitor on the recent attack on a U.S. base in Jordan & the American response in Iraq & Syria. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...

06.02.2024 23:34 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1