Iranian professor to discuss his country’s nuclear crisis

COLUMBUS -- The controversy surrounding Iran’s nuclear capability will be the subject of a talk by a faculty member of Iran’s national university on Monday, April 10, at The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

Mahmood Sariolghalam, associate professor of international relations at National University of Iran in Tehran, will speak on “Iran and the Nuclear Crisis: Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Policy Changes.”

A visiting scholar of international relations at Ohio State in 1997, Sariolghalam lectures, researches and writes on the Third World political economy, international relations theory and international politics of the Middle East.

Born in Iran, Sariolghalam received his B.A. degree in political science and management from California State University-Northridge and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from the University of Southern California.

The event is sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, which fosters interdisciplinary research on national security in a global context.

About the Mershon Center for International Security Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies advances the understanding of national security in a global context by fostering interdisciplinary faculty and student research in three areas of focus: the use of force and diplomacy; the ideas, identities, and decisional processes that affect security; and the institutions that manage violent conflict. The Mershon Center is a unit of the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University.

Mahmood Sariolghalam
Associate Professor of International Relations
National University of Iran