Iran conflict

Follow insights and up-to-date commentary from Watson School experts on the 2026 Iran conflict.

  • Jeff Colgan

    Jeff Colgan

    Director of Climate Solutions Lab, Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
    Areas of Expertise Energy & Environment, Energy Security, International Institutions, Political Economy, Trade, US Foreign Policy
  • Stephen Kinzer

    Stephen Kinzer

    Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    Research Interests Democracy & Elections, Human Rights, International Institutions, US Foreign Policy, Warfare & Peacekeeping
  • Ashutosh Varshney

    Ashutosh Varshney

    Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
    Areas of Expertise Bureaucracy, Democracy & Elections, Ethnic Conflict & Civil War, Inequality & Poverty, Political Economy, Race, Identity & Ethnicity, State & Municipal Policy, Urban Policies & Politics, Urbanization