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Dr. Azadeh Zamirirad

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Africa and Middle East Head of Research Division

azadeh.zamirirad@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications
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Areas of Expertise

Iran
Defence and security policy / Armed forces
Elites and elite change
Political systems

Short Curriculum vitae

since 2024 Head, Africa and Middle East Division

2018 - 2024 Deputy Head, Africa and Middle East Division

since 2015 Researcher, Africa and Middle East Division, SWP

2009–2015 Lecturer (international and comparative politics), University of Potsdam

2008–2014 Editor of the journal WeltTrends

2005–2007 Project coordinator of the DAAD-funded university cooperations of Potsdam University with the Sadat Academy for Management Sciences Cairo and the University of Tehran

2001–2006 M.A. Political Science | American Studies, University of Potsdam

SWP Publications

- Azadeh Zamirirad
Iran: The Test Case for Feminist Foreign Policy
in:
- Claudia Zilla (ed.)
Feminist Foreign and Development Policy in Practice
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2024/RP 09, 21.06.2024, 81 Pages, pp. 42–46
- Azadeh Zamirirad
- David Ramin Jalilvand
- Nikolay Kozhanov
- Mohammadbagher Forough
- P. R. Kumaraswamy
- Ja’far Haghpanah
- Dalileh Rahimi Ashtiani
- Sanam Vakil
- Cornelius Adebahr
Forced to Go East?

Iran’s Foreign Policy Outlook and the Role of Russia, China and India

Working Paper Research Division Middle East and Africa, 2020/01, 42 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020WP03
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- Azadeh Zamirirad
Three implications of the corona crisis in Iran
- German
The coronavirus is more than a health challenge for the Islamic Republic. The virus is exacerbating the legitimacy crisis and pushing religion into the background, says Azadeh Zamirirad.

Point of View, 09.04.2020
- Oliver Meier
- Azadeh Zamirirad
What Europe can do now to save the nuclear deal with Iran
- German
In response to Tehran’s announcement that it will no longer be implementing parts of the nuclear agreement, the EU should do everything it can to avert the danger of the accord’s full collapse and create the necessary conditions to normalise trade relations with Iran. An assessment by Oliver Meier and Azadeh Zamirirad.

Point of View, 10.05.2019
- Stephan Roll
- Azadeh Zamirirad
Détente in the Gulf Region – Saudi Arabia and Iran Agree on Zones of Influence
in:
- Lars Brozus (ed.)
While We Were Planning
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2018/RP 05, 03.09.2018, 46 Pages, pp. 21–25
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- Corentin Brustlein
- James Dobbins
- Dalia Dassa Kaye
- Oliver Meier
- Marco Overhaus
- Neil Quilliam
- Charles Ries
- Dorothée Schmid
- Sanam Vakil
- Azadeh Zamirirad
Saving Transatlantic Cooperation and the Iran Nuclear Deal

A View from Europe and the United States

SWP Comment 2018/C 09, 15.02.2018, 4 Pages
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External publications

- Azadeh Zamirirad
How to complete the revolution? Khamenei´s vision and its disruption after Raisi´s death

in: Iran in transition - Clingendael blog series, 03.06.2024
- Azadeh Zamirirad
The Iran protests one year on: Time for a feminist EU response

in: European Leadership Network, 15.09.2023
- Azadeh Zamirirad
The end of moderation? Social and political radicalism under Hassan Rouhani

in: Radicalization during the Rouhani years. Iran's political shifts and their implications. David Jalilvand and Achim Vogt (eds.), March 2021. Page 4-8.
- Azadeh Zamirirad
To Vote or not to Vote: on the Significance of Presidential Elections in Iran

The majority of the Iranian population may stay away from the ballot box this year. Yet that does not render presidential elections meaningless.

in: The FES Blog on the Iranian Presidential Elections of 2021, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 20.05.2021 (online)
- Azadeh Zamirirad
Missing the Target

Impact of the US »Maximum Pressure« Policy on Iran's Domestic Sphere

In: Achim Vogt and David Jalilvand (eds.): One Year After the Re-imposition of Sanctions - Perspectives on the Strategic Implications of the US »Maximum Pressure« Campaign Against Iran, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 4 November 2019: pp. 6-10.
- Azadeh Zamirirad
Iran’s Shifting Nuclear Debate and the Shrinking Space for Diplomacy

Diplomacy has only a narrow window of opportunity, as the nuclear debate inside Iran remains volatile.

in: RUSI, Commentary, 16.02.2021 (online)

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Areas of Expertise

Short Curriculum vitae

Détente in the Gulf Region – Saudi Arabia and Iran Agree on Zones of Influence