Selected Recent Publications
- Analyst über Iran und die Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz: »Streiks könnten das Regime brechen«, Interview, taz, 17 Feb. 2023.
- Der revolutionäre Prozess in Iran, Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), 16 Feb. 2023.
- Ali Fathollah-Nejad, An Iran opposition coalition was long overdue: It’s an important step forward on the rocky road to change, IranSource, Atlantic Council, 5 Jan. 2023.
- Wenn die Revolution der einzige Ausweg ist, Zeit Online, 1 Nov. 2022.
- (& R. Bouzari), The Nuclear Pyramid of the Islamic Republic, Cairo Review of Global Affairs (online), 20 Oct. 2022.
- Can the Iranian System Survive?, Interview, Carnegie Middle East Center, 29 Sep. 2022. • {Arabic transl.} هل يصمد النظام الإيراني؟, 03/10.
- (& R. Bouzari), Iranian Revolution: Hijab Edition, New Lines Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022.
- The Geography of Protests: Why Khuzestan Matters, in: Iran: No End to Mounting Protests, ISPI »MED This Week«, 1 June 2022.
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the nature of Iranian–Russian relations, Middle East Institute (MEI), 21 Mar. 2022.
- How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Rebounding in Iran, The National Interest (online), 21 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 Jan. 2022 | republished as Irã, a crise do capitalismo dos mulás, Democracia e Mundo do Trabalho em Debate (Brazil), 31 Jan. 2022.
- (& H. Azizi) Iran and the Taliban after the US fiasco in Afghanistan, Middle East Institute, 22 Sep. 2021 • {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.
- (& 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
- The Iranian–Saudi hegemonic rivalry, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, 25 Oct. 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}
