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Ariane Tabatabai
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
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ABOUT
Ariane Tabatabai is a pre-doctoral Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow in the Belfer Center's International Security Program and Project at Managing the Atom and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Her research addresses the strategic implications of the legality of nuclear weapons under Islamic law. Her research interests include international and regional security, nuclear proliferation, arms control, terrorism, and Islamic law. She holds an M.A. in International Peace and Security with Distinction from King's College London and a double B.A. in Political Science and Cinema and Cultural Studies cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is a non-resident Research Associate with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Security Studies
Islamic Law
Terrorism
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Pakistan
Iran
Arabian Peninsula
Islamic World
Specialties
Arms Control
Regional Security
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Persian (native)
French (native)
English (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Education
MPhil | 2013 | War Studies | King\'s College London
MA | 2011 | War Studies | King's College London
BA | 2008 | Political Science | State University of New York at Stony Brook
Abstracts
Religion and Nationalism in Iran’s Nuclear Narrative