Arta Moeini is an international political theorist and a scholar of Modernity and geopolitics whose research spans questions of civilizational decline and cultural renewal (particularly in the West), the role of ideology in statecraft, realist approaches to foreign policy, and global cultural pluralism.

Dr. Moeini is the Director of Research at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD) – an international affairs think tank committed to advancing realism and restraint in U.S. foreign policy.

His writings have appeared in AGON, Compact, UnHerd, The American Conservative, The National Interest, and elsewhere. Dr. Moeini was a 2021 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a 2022 James Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College. He is also an elected member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.

He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Near Eastern Studies from the University of California Berkeley, a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) and M.A. in Government from Georgetown University.