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https://www.brookings.edu/experts/suzanne-maloney/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-maloney-12416613 * https://www.sais-jhu.edu/suzanne-maloney
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EDUCATION:University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1990; Tufts University, Ph.D., 1992.
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Foreign policy expert, educator, and writer. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, postdoctoral fellow, 1998-2001, senior fellow at Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Energy Security and Climate Initiative, 2007–, deputy director of foreign policy, 2015–; ExxonMobil Corporation, Middle East advisor, 2001-04; U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, policy planning staff member, 2005-07; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, adjunct professor. Director of 2004 Council on Foreign Relations Task Force.
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Editor of the blog Markaz. Contributor of articles to publications, including Washington Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Survival, and International Affairs.
SIDELIGHTS
Suzanne Maloney is a writer and foreign policy expert whose work is focused on the Middle East. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Tufts University. In 1998, Maloney became a postdoctoral fellow at the Brookings Institute. She left the organization to work as a Middle East advisor for ExxonMobil Corporation and as a member of the policy planning staff for the U.S. Department of State. Maloney returned to the Brookings Institute in 2007, when she became a senior fellow at its Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Energy Security. Later, she became the institute’s deputy director of foreign policy. Maloney has also taught courses at Johns Hopkins University and directed a 2004 Council on Foreign Relations Task Force. She has written articles that have appeared in publications including the Washington Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Survival, and International Affairs. Maloney also edits the blog Markaz.
Iran's Long Reach
In 2008, she released her first book, Iran’s Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. In this volume, Maloney discusses Iran’s relationships with other nations in the Middle East. She begins the book by providing a brief history of Iran and profiling important leaders, including Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei. Maloney goes on to describe how Iran has handled situations involving militant groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and how it has behaved in regards to nuclear proliferation. Other topics discussed in the book are the role of women in Iran, the economy, and religion. Maloney concludes by commenting on relations between the United States and Iran.
L. Carl Brown offered a favorable assessment of Iran’s Long Reach in Foreign Affairs. Brown suggested: “This little book adds luster to that often unappreciated category–the short survey.”
Iran's Political Economy since the Revolution
Maloney’s 2015 book, Iran’s Political Economy since the Revolution, finds her chronicling the Middle Eastern nation’s economy after the year 1921, when the Qajar dynasty fell. She devotes a significant portion of the volume to the period from 1979 to the present. The year 1979 was when the Iranian Revolution took place. A large recession occurred after the revolution, causing skilled workers to move to other countries, which left Iran vulnerable when Iraq attacked. Maloney identifies other connections between political and economic events in Iran.
John Waterbury reviewed the volume in Foreign Affairs. Highlighting the book’s key points, he stated, “Two important takeaways emerge from her analysis: the Islamic Republic is surprisingly plural … and remarkably resilient.”
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Foreign Affairs, May-June, 2009, L. Carl Brown, review of Iran’s Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World, p. 180; March-April, 2016, John Waterbury, review of Iran’s Political Economy since the Revolution.
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Brookings Institute Web site, https://www.brookings.edu/ (April 4, 2017), author profile.
Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ (April 4, 2017), author profile.
Johns Hopkins University Web site, https://www.sais-jhu.edu/suzanne-maloney (April 4, 2017), author profile.
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Suzanne Maloney is deputy director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow in the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy and Energy Security and Climate Initiative, where her research focuses on Iran and Persian Gulf energy. She is the editor of Markaz, a blog on politics in and policy toward the Middle East published by the Brookings Institution. Her books include the 2008 monograph "Iran's Long Reach" (United States Institute of Peace, 2008) as well as "Iran's Political Economy since the Revolution," published in August 2015 by Cambridge University Press. Her Brookings Essay, "Iran Surprises Itself And The World," was released in September 2013, and she has also published articles in a variety of academic and policy journals.
Maloney previously served as an external advisor to senior State Department officials on long-term issues related to Iran. Before joining Brookings, she served on the secretary of state's policy planning staff, as Middle East advisor for ExxonMobil Corporation, and director of the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. policy toward Iran, chaired by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
She holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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Suzanne Maloney
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Suzanne Maloney is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. The author of Iran’s Long Reach and a forthcoming book on Iran’s political economy since the revolution, Maloney has also published articles in International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Survival, and other journals. She regularly briefs policymakers, the media, and private sector audiences on Iran and oil issues in the region, and last year served as an external advisor to senior State Department officials on longterm issues related to Iran. Before joining the Saban Center, she served on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and directed the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Policy toward Iran, chaired by former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. She holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
QUOTED: "Two important takeaways emerge from her analysis: the Islamic
Republic is surprisingly plural ... and remarkably resilient."
Iran's Political Economy Since the Revolution
John Waterbury
Foreign Affairs.
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Iran's Political Economy Since the Revolution
by Suzanne Maloney. Cambridge University Press, 2015, 588 pp.
Maloney covers Iran's political economy since the fall of the Qajar dynasty in 1921, with a heavy emphasis on the years since the Iranian
Revolution of 1979. She begins with an unsurprising premise: economic crises have driven Iranian politics. Inflation helped bring down the shah;
the unraveling of the economy during the Iran-Iraq War brought in a "pragmatic" president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and economic
mismanagement under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, combined with effective international sanctions, set the stage for the election of President Hassan
Rouhani in 2013. Maloney stresses the constant tussle pitting redistributionists in the parliament, who have been a thorn in the side of every
Iranian president, against the more economically orthodox Guardian Council. Two important takeaways emerge from her analysis: the Islamic
Republic is surprisingly plural, although not democratic, and remarkably resilient. After the revolution, gdp dropped by 32 per-cent, three million
skilled Iranians left the country, three million Afghan refugees came in, and Iraq initiated an eight-year war with devastating consequences.
Subsequent decades have not been much kinder, but the regime has survived.
Waterbury, John
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QUOTED: "This little book adds luster to that often unappreciated category–the short survey."
The third in the U.S. Institute of Peace's series on "pivotal" states in the Muslim world, this little book adds luster to that often unappreciated category -- the short survey. After an introduction that really does introduce her subject with a fine summary history -- from Khomeini to Khatami to Khamenei -- Maloney moves on smartly to address Iran's "long reach" in regional politics, treating everything from Hamas and Hezbollah to Afghanistan and Iraq, plus the inevitable nuclear issue. The next chapter treats seamlessly such diverse matters as the economy, Iran's young population, the massive "brain drain," and the role of students and women. There is even a consideration of what might be dubbed the evolving politico-theological role of the supreme leader and the regional assets and liabilities of Iran as a Shiite polity. The concluding chapter provides surely the best nine pages written on the pressing subject of what should be U.S. foreign policy toward Iran. Partial disclosure: war and regime change will not work.