Professor Jason Abbot Publishes Foreign Policy Analysis in Fair Observer

Professor Jason Abbott, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, has published a new foreign policy analysis in Fair Observer examining the risks of the expanding US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The piece argues that Washington’s reported consideration of arming Iranian Kurdish groups reflects a dangerous and historically familiar proxy regime change strategy — one that misreads Iran’s ethnic, sectarian, and demographic realities. With Iran’s Kurdish population comprising just 8-10% of the country, concentrated in the northwest and predominantly Sunni in a majority Shia state, the strategy risks provoking nationalist consolidation rather than regime collapse. Abbott warns that fragmentation could draw in Russia and China, potentially turning Iran into a conflict zone vastly more dangerous than Syria.

The article, “The Road to Quagmire in Iran: Why Arming the Kurds Risks Destabilizing the Region,” is available to read in full at fairobserver.com.