{"id":1353,"date":"2026-04-02T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:45:43","slug":"professor-jason-abbot-publishes-foreign-policy-analysis-in-fair-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/2026\/04\/02\/professor-jason-abbot-publishes-foreign-policy-analysis-in-fair-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jason Abbot Publishes Foreign Policy Analysis in Fair Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~abbottj\">Jason Abbott<\/a>, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, has published a new foreign policy analysis in <em>Fair Observer<\/em> examining the risks of the expanding US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The piece argues that Washington&#8217;s reported consideration of arming Iranian Kurdish groups reflects a dangerous and historically familiar proxy regime change strategy \u2014 one that misreads Iran&#8217;s ethnic, sectarian, and demographic realities. With Iran&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The article, &#8220;The Road to Quagmire in Iran: Why Arming the Kurds Risks Destabilizing the Region,&#8221; is available to read in full at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairobserver.com\/world-news\/middle-east-news\/the-road-to-quagmire-in-iran-why-arming-the-kurds-risks-destabilizing-the-region\/\">fairobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s reported consideration of arming Iranian Kurdish groups reflects a dangerous and historically familiar proxy regime change strategy \u2014 one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/political-science-and-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}