Selected Recent Publications
- Wenn die Revolution der einzige Ausweg ist, Zeit online, 01/11 • Re-Published by Qantara, 02/11.
- (& R. Bouzari), The Nuclear Pyramid of the Islamic Republic, Cairo Review of Global Affairs (online), 20/10.
- »Die Proteste sind eine veritable Gefahr für Irans Regime«, Interview, Die Presse (Austria), 18/10, p. 4.
- So will Irans Regime die Revolution stoppen, Interview, ZDFheute, 02/10.
- Can the Iranian System Survive?, Interview, Diwan, Beirut: Carnegie Middle East Center, 29/09. • {Arabic transl.} هل يصمد النظام الإيراني؟, 03/10.
- The establishment-population divide is not simply a generational matter, in: F. Schiavi (ed.) Women, Life, Freedom: Iran at a Crossroads, »MED This Week«, Milan: ISPI (Italian Institute for International Political Studies), 29/09.
- (& R. Bouzari), Iranian Revolution: Hijab Edition, New Lines Magazine, 26/09 | Emran Feroz, Über den Aufstand in Iran, piqd, 27/09.
- »Das System in der Islamischen Republik ist nicht reformierbar«, Interview, Die Presse (Austria), 05/08, p. 4.
- Iran in Focus, Issue 3 (Spring/Summer), Beirut: Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), American University of Beirut (AUB), 15 pp.
- Wirtschaftskrise im Iran: Sanktionen statt Atomabkommen, taz, 08/07, S. 11.
- (& R. Bouzari), A country in free fall, a corruptocracy in full swing: Why a building collapse in Iran matters, Middle East Institute (MEI), 07/06.
- The Geography of Protests: Why Khuzestan Matters, in: Iran: No End to Mounting Protests, ISPI »MED This Week«, 01/06.
- Iran in Focus, Issue 2 (Feb.–March), Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & Int’l Affairs (IFI), American University of Beirut (AUB), 16 pp.
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the nature of Iranian–Russian relations, Middle East Institute (MEI), 21 Mar.
- How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Rebounding in Iran, The National Interest (online), 21 Mar.
- The Run-Up To JCPOA’s Revival, Global Policy Journal (online), 3 Mar. 2022.
- (& M. Ghodsi) Raisi’s shrinking budget cements the Islamic Republic’s »trinity«, Middle East Institute, 20 Jan. 2022.
- Wirtschaft im Iran: Die Krise des Mullah-Kapitalismus, Qantara.de: Dialog mit der islamischen Welt, 28. Dez. • {English transl.} The causes of Iran’s economic woes, Qantara.de • {French transl.} Iran. La crise du capitalisme des mollahs, A l’encontre (site de la revue La brèche) • {Spanish transl.} Irán – La crisis del capitalismo de los mulás, Correspondecia de Prensa, 03/01/2022 • {Portuguese transl.} Irão, a crise do capitalismo dos mulás, Esquerda (Portugal), 23/01/2022 | republished as Irã, a crise do capitalismo dos mulás, Democracia e Mundo do Trabalho em Debate (Brazil), 31/01/2022.
- Continuity and change in Raisi’s approach to the nuclear deal, in: Hypes and Hopes for the Iranian Nuclear Deal, »ISPI MED This Week«, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), 29 Nov. 2021.
- (& H. Azizi) Iran and the Taliban after the US fiasco in Afghanistan, Middle East Institute, 22/09 • {German transl.} Iran und die Taliban: Geopolitik in Afghanistans Nachbarschaft, iz3w: Zeitschrift zwischen Nord und Süd, Jan.–Feb. 2022, 9–11.
- Bidens Iran-Politik und der Schatten der Obama-Doktrin, WeltTrends, Sep., 35–40 | republished by Iran-Journal, 18 Sep. 2021.
- The Real Winner is the Boycott Campaign, in: Beyond Iran’s Elections: Making Sense of Raisi’s Islamic Republic, ISPI MED This Week, 23 June 2021.
- (& A. Sarkohi) Irans soziale Frage – im Schatten von Politik und Wahlkampf, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stifung (FES), 31 May 2021 • {English transl.} The Social Question – the Neglected Topic in Iranian Politics and the Presidential Campaign, FES.
- (& A. Palm) MENA Spring 3.0: The Persistent »Triple Crisis« in Europe’s Neighbourhood, in: M. Sus & M. Hadeed (eds.) European Security 2030: The Results of the Dahrendorf Foresight Project, Dahrendorf Forum, LSE IDEAS, Sep. 2019
- Four Decades Later, Did the Iranian Revolution Fulfill Its Promises?, Brookings Institution, 11 July 2019 | Arabic
- (et al.) A Harmful U.S. Sanctions Strategy? Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
- Swamped in a Triple Crisis, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Spring 2019
- Europe and the Future of Iran Policy: Dealing with a Dual Crisis, Brookings Institution, Oct. 2018 | Arabic
- The end of the Iran deal spells the end of Iranian moderates, The National Interest, 26 June 2018
- There’s more to Iran’s protests than you’ve been told, PBS NewsHour, 3 April 2018 / (& A. Sarkohi) »Fürchtet euch!« Wenn Slogans für sich sprechen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 16. Jan. 2018, S. 37
- The Iranian–Saudi hegemonic rivalry, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, 25 Oct. 2017
- Rouhani’s Neoliberal Doctrine Has Failed Iran, Middle East Institute, 18 May 2017 / Where will the Rouhani administration’s neoliberal doctrine lead Iran to? (Persian), pecritique.com (Political Economy Critique), Nov./Dec. 2017
Latest Monographs
2021 Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (Studies in Iranian Politics), May. {details & advance praise}
2020 The Politics of Culture in Times of Rapprochement: European Cultural and Academic Exchange with Iran (2015–16), new forewords by A.-H. Cheheltan & A. Adib-Moghaddam, Potsdam: Wissenschaftsverlag WeltTrends.
2020 The Islamic Republic of Iran Four Decades On: The 2017/18 Protests Amid a Triple Crisis, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution & Doha: Brookings Doha Center, April (60 pp.) • in Arabic translation by Brookings Doha. {see also ongoing research project on “Iran’s long-term revolutionary process“, incl. publications & media commentary in multiple languages}
