18 Facts About Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes was born on 1956 and is an American international relations scholar specializing in Middle Eastern politics, US foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action.

Stephen Zunes 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.

Stephen Zunes is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco teaching courses on the politics of Middle East and other regions, US foreign policy, nonviolence, conflict resolution, and globalization.

Stephen Zunes serves as a senior policy analyst and advisory board member for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, a contributing editor of Tikkun, and a member of the academic advisory council of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

Stephen Zunes was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship on Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies at Dartmouth College and a Joseph J Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic Studies.

Stephen Zunes served as founding director of the Institute for a New Middle East Policy and as a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, the Institute for Global Security Studies and the United States Institute of Peace.

Stephen Zunes publicly doubted prior to the March 2003 invasion that Iraq still had operational weapons of mass destruction and predicted that, "sooner or later, the American public will realize that a US invasion of Iraq has been a disaster" since "such efforts at hegemony inevitably spawn their own resistance".

Stephen Zunes has been an outspoken opponent of US backing of some Arab states and of Israel.

Stephen Zunes has called for an Israeli-Palestinian peace based upon international law which recognizes both Israeli security and Palestinian rights, including a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian and Syrian territories, an end to terrorism, and security guarantees for Israel and its neighbors.

Stephen Zunes is the author of scores of articles for scholarly and general readership on Middle Eastern politics, US foreign policy, international terrorism, nonviolent action, international law, and human rights.

Stephen Zunes is the author of Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism.

Stephen Zunes is the principal editor of Nonviolent Social Movements.

Stephen Zunes is a regular contributor to the Common Dreams, Truthout, and Alternet websites.

Stephen Zunes is a frequent guest on National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, PBS, BBC, MSNBC and other media outlets for analysis on breaking world events.

Stephen Zunes has traveled to more than sixty countries and has accepted invitations to speak at venues in more than twenty.

In September 2007, Stephen Zunes was among a group of American religious leaders and scholars who met with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Stephen Zunes lives in a cohousing community in Santa Cruz, California with his spouse Nanlouise Wolfe was born on 1957), who serves on the staff of the Resource Center for Nonviolence, and their children Shanti was born on 1988), Kalila (b.

Stephen Zunes grew up in the university town of Chapel Hill, attending public and Quaker schools, and spent most summers as well as his early adolescence in the Celo Community in the mountains of western North Carolina.