Date
March 6, 2026
Iran conflict
Follow insights and up-to-date commentary from Watson School experts on the 2026 Iran conflict.
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Mark Blyth
The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of Rhodes CenterAreas of Expertise Global Finance & Banking
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Jeff Colgan
Director of Climate Solutions Lab, Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public AffairsAreas of Expertise Energy & Environment, Energy Security, International Institutions, Political Economy, Trade, US Foreign Policy
- Iran War Has Already Cost Americans $17 Billion At the Pump (Heatmap News)
- If Trump Bombs Iran’s Power Plants, Unthinkable Horrors Will Follow (The New Republic)
- Thanks to Trump, petro-imperialism is back (Mother Jones)
- CBC's David Common talks to author Jeff Colgan about the impact of the Iran conflict on oil markets (Canadian Broadcast Network)
- Is oil behind the US attack on Iran? (Good Authority)
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Lyle Goldstein
Director, China Initiative, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
- Iran war: is the US shifting away from its strategy of precision strikes? (South China Morning Post)
- The delayed US-China Summit is another cost of the Iran War (National Interest)
- The Battle of Gallipoli's sobering lessons for the Strait of Hormuz (U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings)
- Why Donald Trump's war could play into China's hands (The Chicago Tribune)
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Stephen Kinzer
Senior Fellow in International and Public AffairsResearch Interests Democracy & Elections, Human Rights, International Institutions, US Foreign Policy
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Reid Pauly
Dean's Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and PolicyAreas of Expertise Nuclear Weapons, US Foreign Policy
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Heidi Peltier
Senior Research Associate in International and Public AffairsResearch Interests Energy & Environment, Energy Security, Labor, Political Economy
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Stephanie Savell
Director of the Costs of War, Senior Fellow in International and Public AffairsResearch Interests US Foreign Policy
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Ashutosh Varshney
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social SciencesAreas of Expertise Bureaucracy, Democracy & Elections, Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, Inequality & Poverty, Political Economy, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, State & Municipal Policy, Urban Policies & Politics, Urbanization
Costs of War research
- How does war affect the economy? Iran vs. Afghanistan vs. Iraq (Europe Says)
- What the Iran war is costing our climate (Marketplace)
- Israeli forces kill Palestinian journalist Amal Shamali in Gaza attack (British Caribbean News)
- ‘Serious water crisis’ on horizon as Middle East’s desalination plants hit and acid rain falls (Euro News)
- US has doled out $21.7bn military aid to Israel since Oct 2023 (The News International)
- How Trump’s war with Iran could have already cost over $1 billion (Forbes)
- How much could the Iran war cost: Here's what we know (Al Jazeera)
- Trump promised no wars. Now he’s a Bush-style regime change president (The Guardian)