Arash Reisinezhad is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is a scholar of Middle East geopolitics, foreign policy, and strategic studies. His work focuses on the shifting dynamics of power, security, and economic infrastructure in the region, particularly in the context of global U.S.–China competition. His research interests span a broad range of topics, including the geopolitics of energy, infrastructure and corridor competition, geoeconomics, sectarianism, political Islam, social movements, and technological change. A core focus of their current work is on the weakening of the so-called Axis of Resistance led by Iran and the rise of new infrastructure and digital connectivity corridors across the Middle East. He examines how emerging trade routes, energy pipelines, and AI technologies are reconfiguring regional alliances and reshaping the strategic landscape of Greater West Asia.
He is the author of two books—one on
the Shah of Iran’s foreign policy and another on
the New Silk Road—as well as a collection of essays analyzing
Iran’s 2009 Green Movement. His most recent article is on
the corridor war in the Middle East. His scholarship combines geopolitical risk analysis with historical and policy insight, offering a nuanced understanding of how state and non-state actors respond to shifting global and regional pressures. By bridging the fields of foreign policy analysis, strategic studies, and economic development, his work contributes to broader debates on nation-building, nationalism, and international competition in the Middle East. He aims to inform both academic and policy conversations on the future of regional order in an era of accelerating geopolitical tensions and geoeconomic transformation.
