Ali R Abootalebi

Ali R. Abootalebi is a professor of Middle Eastern and global politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from The University of Arizona. Dr. Abootalebi is the author of Islam and Democracy: State-Society Relations in Developing Countries, 1980-1994, coauthor (with Stephen Hill) of Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States, and has written numerous articles on Iran, Arab politics,...See more

Ali R. Abootalebi is a professor of Middle Eastern and global politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from The University of Arizona. Dr. Abootalebi is the author of Islam and Democracy: State-Society Relations in Developing Countries, 1980-1994, coauthor (with Stephen Hill) of Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States, and has written numerous articles on Iran, Arab politics, civil society and democracy, and U.S. foreign policy. See less