Stephen Zunes is an American international relations scholar specializing in the Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. He is known internationally as a leading critic of United States policy in the Middle East, particularly under the George W. Bush Administration, and an analyst of nonviolent civil insurrections against autocratic regimes.
He recently returned from a trip to Sudan and talks about the nonviolent democratic uprising there and also discusses tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Joe Biden’s history with Iraq policy and other hot topics.