Tirman is the author or co-author and editor of ten books on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy, including Terror, Insurgency, and States (2007), The Maze of Fear: Security & Migration After 9/11 (2004) and By the Crusader's Sword: The Human Toll of American Wars (forthcoming). His articles on Iran have appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, including the Boston Globe, Strategic Insights, and AlterNet, as well as reports published my MIT. He has organized projects on Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and MIT, as well as a major historical research effort on the history of the U.S.-Iran relationship in partnership with The National Security Archive and Brown University's Watson Institute.