Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin
Born 1951
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupation Journalist

Barbara Slavin (born 1951) is an American journalist and foreign policy expert. She is a Washington correspondent for Al Monitor and acting director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center. She is the author of a book about Iran–United States relations.

Early life

Barbara Slavin graduated from Harvard University, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in Russian Language and Literature.[1]

Career

Slavin was an editor of the Week in Review in The New York Times.[2] She was also a correspondent for The Economist in Cairo, Egypt, and Senior Diplomatic Reporter for USA Today.[2] Additionally, she was Assistant Managing Editor for World and National Security at The Washington Times.[2] She has also written for Business Week, Newsday, and The Los Angeles Times.[1] She is now a Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.[2]

Slavin was a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in June–August 2006.[3] She was also a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, where she authored a report titled Mullahs, Money, and Militias.[4] She is acting director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council.[5]

Slavin is the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. The book starts with a description of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a representative of the "new generation" despised by the Iranian elite,[6] followed by an explanation of the way Ali Khamenei manipulates different loci of polity like the Revolutionary Guards, the mullahs, the reformers and the oppositions.[7] Slavin then assesses the discontent of the younger generation born after the Iranian Revolution, and analyzes aspects of the antagonism between the United States and Iran with regards to their respective relations with the Arab world.[7] In a review for Foreign Affairs, L. Carl Brown, a Professor of History at Princeton University, notes that Slavin describes the Revolutionary Guards as "part-military, part mafia".[7] In another review for The Middle East Journal, John Limbert, a Professor of International Affairs at the United States Naval Academy, notes that Slavin uses many "small but revealing vignettes" to illustrate her analyses.[6]

In an article for the Lowy Institute for International Policy in January 2017, Slavin described President Donald Trump as "a neophyte populist politician whose promise to 'make America great again' is based on a deeply pessimistic view of the American status quo and the world order."[8] She added, "Our new president has a lot to learn and has shown a limited capacity to evolve."[8]

Works

  • Slavin, Barbara (2007). Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US, and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312368258. OCLC 493683087.
  • Slavin, Barbara (2008). Mullahs, Money, and Militias: How Iran Exerts Its Influence in the Middle East. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace. OCLC 232159795.

References

  1. 1 2 "Barbara Slavin". The Globalist. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Barbara Slavin". Middle East Institute. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Middle East Program: Barbara Slavin". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Barbara Slavin". Voice of America. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ Full Bio: Barbara Slavin: Acting Director, Future of Iran Initiative, Atlantic Council.
  6. 1 2 Limbert, John (Spring 2008). "Reviewed Work: Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation by Barbara Slavin". The Middle East Journal. 62 (2): 341–342. JSTOR 25482516.
  7. 1 2 3 Brown, L. Carl (November–December 2007). "Reviewed Work: Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation by Barbara Slavin". Foreign Affairs. 86 (6): 200–201. JSTOR 20032555.
  8. 1 2 Slavin, Barbara (January 21, 2017). "From Obama optimism to Trumpian gloom". The Interpreter. Lowy Institute for International Policy. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
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