Azadeh Zamirirad, M.A.

Azadeh Zamirirad, M.A.


Research Division: Middle East and Africa
Senior Associate

azadeh.zamirirad(at)swp-berlin.org

phone:+49 30 88007-274

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

Areas of Expertise:

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


SWP Publications (selection):

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, February 2018, 4 Pages
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Azadeh Zamirirad

Russia Replaces the United States as Iraq’s Security Partner

in: Sabine Fischer, Margarete Klein (eds.)
Conceivable Surprises

Eleven Possible Turns in Russia’s Foreign Policy

Contributions to Research Papers 2016/RP 10, October 2016, 78 Pages, S. 35-39
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External Publications (selection):

Azadeh Zamirirad

To Save the Iran Deal, the EU Must Quit Playing Defence

European Leadership Network (Commentary), 25.09.2017.

SWP Comments

Stephan Roll
“Flash-in-the-Pan” Development in Egypt?

IMF-backed Economic Recovery Stymied by Absence of Structural Reforms and Massive Human Rights Violations

Gil Murciano
Preventing a Spillover of the Iran Israel Conflict in Syria

E3+Russia Should Lead the Way Out

SWP Research Papers

Anne Koch, Annette Weber, Isabelle Werenfels (eds.)
Profiteers of Migration?

Authoritarian States in Africa and European Migration Management

Peter Lintl (ed.)
Actors in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Interests, Narratives and the Reciprocal Effects of the Occupation