Amin Tarzi

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Dr. Amin Tarzi is an analyst for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Senior Fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. Dr. Tarzi previously served as Senior Research Associate for the Middle East at the [[Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he taught graduate seminars on Middle East security policies and threat perceptions.^[1] Dr. Tarzi has also served as Political Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Mission at the United Nations and as Researcher/Analyst at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.^[2]

Dr. Tarzi's areas of research include the history, politics and state-building process in Afghanistan, U.S. policy in Iraq and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, and Iranian security and threat perceptions including its missile and nuclear programs. He currently has several works in the press, including a chapter entitled "Islam and Contitutionalism in Afghanistan" to be published by Harvard Universtiy Press; "Afghanistan at the Crossroads, A Melting Pot or a Melt Down?" to be published by "Geopolitics;" and "Iranian Strategic Environment in Post-War Iraq: Lessons From Afghanistan and the Role of Nuclear Weapons."^[3]

Tarzi has also served in the U.S. Armed Forces as a member of the Marine Corps. Dr. Tarzi earned his Ph.D. and MA from New York University, and holds a BA from Queens College in New York. He is apart of the historic Tarzi family from Afghanistan.