Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme

Expertise

• Politics and history of Iran
• International relations of Iran, especially with the West
• Political ideologies of the Middle East

Projects

• Director of the MEP's Iran project (more information will follow shortly)
• The Politics of nationalism in Modern Iran (CUP)

Recent Publications

Single Authored Books

• Confronting Iran: the failure of US foreign policy and the roots of mistrust, Hurst/Basic, London, pp 280, 2006 (Pb, 2nd edition 2007)
• Iran, Islam & Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change, RIIA, London, 2000 pp 240 (2nd edition fully updated published, 2006)
• The History of Modern Iran 1921: The Pahlavis & After, Longman, Pearson Education, London, 2003, pp 272 (2nd edition 2007)

Articles in Journals, Edited Volumes and Papers

• 'Iran Under Ahmadinejad: Populism and its Malcontents', International Affairs, July 2008
• 'Iran under Ahmadinejad', Adelphi paper, IISS, 2007
• 'Iran and the US in the shadow of 9/11: Persia and the Persian Question revisited', in Iranian Studies, Vol 39, No 2, June 2006, pp 155-170
• 'Peacekeeping in the Middle East' in Peacekeeping ed Rachel Utley, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp 135-146
• 'Persia in the Western Imagination' in Vanessa Martin (ed) Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, Royal Asiatic Society Books, Routledge, London, 2005, pp8-20
• 'Iranian Nationalism' in Youssef Choueri (ed) Companion to the History of the Middle East, Blackwell, London, 2005, pp 320-333
• "Continuous Regime Change from Within", in The Washington Quarterly, 26:4, Autumn 2003, pp 53-57
• "Iran at the Crossroads: Democratisation and the Dialectics of the Revolution", in Soundings, 23, Spring 2003, pp 25-36
• "Cultural Transmutations: the Dialectics of Globalisation in Contemporary Iran", in T Dodge & R Higgot (eds) Globalisation and the Middle East: Economy, Society & Politics RIIA, London, 2002, pp 132-150
• "The Myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, modernisation' and the consolidation of power", in Middle Eastern Studies, 37, 3, July 2001pp 1-24
• "Iranian Foreign Policy under Khatami: Reform & Reintegration", in Iran & Eurasia ed A Ehteshami & A Mohammadi, Ithaca Press, Reading, 2000, pp 35-58
• "The Iranian Revolution 20 Years on", in Politique Etrangère, IFRI, Paris, May 2000 pp 81-93
  

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