Pierre Pahlavi
Chair, security and international affairs, Canadian Forces College.
Last Contribution:
A Country in Search of Might
Contributor Biography
Along with multidisciplinary and international academic training, Dr. Pahlavi has a diploma from the Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis (MA), from the Université de Montréal (MSc), and from McGill University (Ph.D). In the past, his research has been funded by the Department of National Defence through the Forum on Security and Defence, the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales (CÉRIUM), and Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC). During his postdoctoral work, he taught in Quebec at UQAM and l’Université de Sherbrooke, where he was Associate Researcher, Chaire de recherche du Canada en politique étrangère et de défense canadiennes (UQAM), at CÉRIUM, and within the Work and Research Group on international security with Groupe d’études et de recherche sur la sécurité internationale.
He is presently working as a media consultant on Iran. His recent publications discuss his main areas of expertise: influence strategies, Iran’s foreign policy, and irregular war. He has authored several studies on the theme of public diplomacy in the age of global information, published in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, The Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Consortium Canadien sur la Sécurité humaine, and le Journal de la Francophonie. He also devoted a monograph and articles on the issue of asymmetric wars, which appeared in L’Harmattan, Canadian Military Journal, and Canadian Army Journal*. Most recently, he authored articles on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regional and international strategy.
He is currently completing work on a comparative study of modern public diplomacy. While continuing work on the general theme of influence strategies, he aspires to develop an analysis of Iran’s international policy. His projects in this area include a monograph discussing the main axes of Iran’s great international strategy, and several chapters and articles on more specific aspects of Teheran’s regional policy. His ultimate goal is the development of a research group on the particular issue of Panshiism, primarily involving researchers from the Canadian Forces College (CFC) and the Royal Military College of Canada.
