John Tirman

John Tirman (December 13, 1949–August 19, 2022) was an American political theorist. Since 2004, he has been executive director and principal research scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies. There he led the Persian Gulf Initiative, which conducted work on Iraq war mortality, U.S.-Iran relations, and other projects. He was the author or co-author of 13 books on international affairs, many of them exploring and advocating the “human security” paradigm in global affairs, and was a frequent contributor to AlterNet, ''The Huffington Post'', and ''The Boston Globe''. Provided by Wikipedia