Kayhan Barzegar

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Boyan Bilbia

Wenli Bei

Fabienne Bossuyt

Konstantin Bogdanov

Yvan Blot

Juan Battaleme

Pascal Boniface

Amit Bhandari

Kayhan Barzegar

Iran

Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) in Tehran

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University. Kayhan Barzegar was a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center (2007–2011), and a Post-doctorate Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) (2002–2003).

His latest publications include Political Rationality in Iranian Foreign Policy (2017); Why Trump Should Cooperate with the Iran-Russia Coalition to Defeat IS (2016); The Geopolitics of JCPOA: Iran’s Foreign Policy after the Nuclear Deal (2016); How ISIS has changed the Iran-Russia Relations (2015); How Iran Deal Could Bring Multilateralism to Middle East (2015); To Defeat ISIS, Get Iran on Board (2015).

His latest book: Iran’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East after the Arab Spring (2015). Kayhan Barzegar is Editor-in-Chief of Discourse: An Iranian English Quarterly.

Materials

Opinions

The Oil Price Wars in the Light of Coronavirus

With the outbreak of coronavirus, the global oil market equations have become more complicated. This, coupled with the decrease in demand that has resulted from the decline of the global economy, has led to a surplus in the global oil supply, resulting, unfortunately, in fierce competition for oil market share and a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, adding to the already-critical situation in the global market.

31.03.2020

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US-Iran: What's Next in This Conflict?

With Iran's “tit for tat” policy in attacking the American military bases in Iraq after the assassination of Major General Gassem Soliemani, the commander of Iran’s Quds force, it seems that both Iran and the U.S. have entered a de-escalation phase. For Tehran, this limited conventional military action was necessary and justified as a show of its national strength and unity. It also legitimised the nation's regional policy.

21.01.2020

Opinions

The Emerging ‘Inward Looking’ System in the Middle East

The emerging “inward looking” system in the Middle East links the stability of the state to regional stability. It is the result of states’ efforts to adjust their position in the changing regional balance of power in facing the current geopolitical and economic constraints.