Sanam Vakil is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.

Recent articles

The repair of a generation of hostility needs work within as well as between Washington and Tehran, says Sanam Vakil.

Iran’s seizure of British military personnel in the contested waters of the Persian Gulf is an instrument both of domestic pressure-politics and foreign-policy leverage, says Sanam Vakil.

Tehran’s nuclear programme, regional profile and economic woes have put its regime in a corner. Sanam Vakil suggests a way out.