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# Adam Dehsabzi 

Research Associate

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Adam Dehsabzi is a research associate for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, where his research focuses on Middle Eastern security affairs, transatlantic relations, nationalism, and minority self-determination. His writing has appeared in *The National Interest*, *Responsible Statecraft*, *Gulf International Forum*, the Lowy Institute, and I.B. Tauris (Bloomsbury).

He holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago, where he was a thesis advisee and research assistant to political scientist John Mearsheimer, and a BDes in architecture from the University of Technology Sydney.