Saeid Golkar is an associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). His extensive research on authoritarian regimes includes the Washington Institute study “Protests and Regime Suppression in Post-Revolutionary Iran.”
Golkar received a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Tehran University in June 2008. His work can be found in publications such as Middle East Journal; Armed Forces & Society; Politics, Religion & Ideology; and Middle East Policy. Captive Society, his book on the Basij paramilitary force and the securitization of Iranian society, was copublished by Columbia University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press in June 2015. Golkar is the author of the April 2018 Institute study Cultural Heterogeneity in Post-Revolutionary Iran.
