Pardee Center Welcomes Arash Azizi and Fabrício Chagas-Bastos as Visiting Fellows

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to welcome Arash Azizi and Fabrício Chagas-Bastos as Visiting Fellows for the 2024-25 academic year.

Arash Azizi is a historian of 20th century social and political movements, with a particular interest in global socialism. Specializing in the Cold War era, his work highlights the crucial role of non-state actors such as leftist parties and trade unions in the waging of this global contest. His first two books covered Iran’s regional entanglements and its social movements. He is currently working on a new book project focused on the communist movement in the Middle East during the Cold War, with particular attention paid to the working alliance between communist parties in Iran, Iraq and Israel/Palestine. He is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos is a Visiting Scholar in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University. He is an assistant professor of political science and EU Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. His research examines how non-Western states and individuals behave toward formal and informal mechanisms of global governance. At the Pardee Center, his research will specifically explore the interrelations between technological developments and geopolitical strategies, focusing on how these factors influence the current and future world order.