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John Tirman
John Tirman is an American political theorist. Since 2004, Tirman has been Executive Director and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies. There he heads the Persian Gulf Initiative, which has conducted work on Iraq war mortality and U.S.-Iran relations, as well as other projects. He is author or coauthor of 13 books on international affairs, many of them exploring and advocating the “human security” paradigm in global affairs, and is a frequent contributor to AlterNet, ''The Huffington Post'', and ''The Boston Globe''.
==Education and early career==
Tirman was educated at Indiana University (B.A., 1972) and subsequently earned a doctorate at Boston University, where he specialized in political theory with Howard Zinn, Frances Fox Piven, Murray Levin, and Alasdair MacIntyre. His friendship with Zinn and his wife Roz lasted for nearly 40 years. Zinn told his biographer Davis Joyce that Tirman was one of his best students.〔Davis Joyce, Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision (Prometheus Books, 2003): 239.〕
Tirman worked at ''Time'' magazine and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). It was at UCS where he began to work on international security issues, mentored by Henry W. Kendall, the chair of UCS and a professor of physics at MIT; Kendall later was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics. Tirman edited two books on "star wars", the strategic defense initiative started by President Ronald Reagan; one of them, ''The Fallacy of Star Wars'' (Vintage, 1984), was the first important critique of strategic defense, and brought together leading scientists like Kendall, Hans Bethe, Victor Weisskopf, and Richard Garwin, among others. Tirman wrote frequently on the issue for the ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'',〔"Space and National Security", ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'' Jan/Feb 1988〕 The Nation,〔"Star Wars: From Scenario to Fact", ''The Nation'', December 23, 1983〕 the ''Los Angeles Times'',〔"Star Wars is Dead", ''Los Angeles Times'', April 23, 1987〕 ''Esquire'',〔"Walking Out of Star Wars", ''Esquire'', October 1984〕 and others. For 12 years, beginning in 1986, he headed the Winston Foundation for World Peace, a charitable foundation created by Robert Winston Scrivner, which provided grants to NGOs working on nuclear disarmament and conflict prevention. He also headed the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and the CarEth Foundation in the mid- to late 1990s, and was editor of the peace movement magazine, ''Nuclear Times''.
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