Vali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History There are books that explain a country. There are books that explain a regime. And then there are books that force us to reconsider the way we have been taught to read a nation. Vali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History belongs to the third category. This is not merely a book about Iran. It is a book about how Iran thinks, remembers, fears, calculates and survives. Nasr’s central argument is both simple and powerful: Iran should not be understood only through the narrow lens of ideology, religion or revolutionary slogans. Behind the image of the Islamic Republic as a theocratic and anti-Western state lies a deeper strategic logic — one shaped by history, insecurity, war, sanctions, regional rivalry and the desire to be recognised as a major power in West Asia. The book was published by Princeton University Press in 2025 and runs to about 408 pages. Nasr argues that Iran’s foreign policy is not simply emotional, irrati...
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