Mark Gasiorowski

Mark Gasiorowski is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University.  He also currently serves as Chair of the Department.  He received a BA in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1976 and a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1984.  His scholarly activity focuses primarily on Iran and US-Iran relations.  He has published numerous books and articles on these and other topics and has served frequently as a consultant and media commentator on Iran.  He has traveled extensively in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.  He was a visiting professor at Tehran University in 1994, 1996, and 1998 and a Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University in 2001-2002.  He has lived in New Orleans with his wife and daughter for some 20 years.  In his spare time he enjoys traveling, hiking, sculpture, and vampire movies.

Publications

• The Political Regimes Project Studies In Comparative International Development Gasiorowski Mark J. 1990
• An overview of the political regime change dataset Comparative Political Studies Gasiorowski Mark J. 1996
• Institutional design and democratic consolidation in the Third World Comparative Political Studies Power Timothy J. Gasiorowski Mark J. 1997
• The structural determinants of democratic consolidation evidence from the third world Comparative Political Studies Gasiorowski Mark J. Power Timothy J. 1998
• Macroeconomic conditions and political instability: An empirical analysis Studies in Comparative International Development Gasiorowski Mark J. 1999
• Democracy and macroeconomic performance in underdeveloped countries: An empirical analysis Comparative Political Studies Gasiorowski Mark J. 2000
• The power struggle in Iran Middle East Policy Gasiorowski Mark J. 2000
• The CIA looks back at the 1953 coup in Iran Middle East Report Gasiorowski Mark J. 2000
• The macroeconomic consequences of Democratic Transition: Learning processes in the third and fourth waves of democratization Studies in Comparative International Development Gasiorowski Mark J. Poptani Zaheer 2006
• Mutual threat perceptions in the gulf: Introduction Middle East Policy Legrenzi Matteo Gause III F. Gregory Gasiorowski Mark Mattair Thomas R. Russell James A. 2007
• The new aggressiveness in Iran's forign policy Middle East Policy Gasiorowski Mark 2007
• The causes of Iran's 1953 coup: A critique of darioush bayandor's Iran and the CIA Iranian Studies Gasiorowski Mark J. 2012
• US intelligence assistance to Iran, may-october 1979 Middle East Journal Gasiorowski Mark 2012
• The CIA's TPBEDAMN operation and the 1953 coup in Iran Journal of Cold War Studies Gasiorowski Mark J. 2013