Robin Wright

Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst. She is currently a USIP Senior Fellow-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar. During her fellowship, Wright is working on two books, "Rock the Cashbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic world" (published in 2011) and "The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy" (published in 2010).  Her project explores new trends in the Islamic world-the Arab revolts, the counter-jihad against extremism, and the challenge to theocratic rule- a decade after 9/11.  She also identifies issues that will define the next decade, when the repercussions of the region's transformation will be a major policy challenge for the United States and the West.

Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor.  She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The International Herald Tribune and many others.  Her foreign tours include five years in the Middle East, two years in Europe, seven years in Africa, and several years as a roving foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia.  She most recently covered U.S. foreign policy for the Washington Post.  Besides a long career in journalism, Wright has been a fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale University, Duke University, Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California.  Wright received her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Michigan.

• Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011).
• The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy (Washington, DC: USIP and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 2010).
• Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (New York: Penguin Press, 2008).
• The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (Alfred A. Knopf: Vintage, 2000).
• Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985, updated 2001).
• Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).
• In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).