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

Wolfram Lacher
Tripoli’s Militia Cartel

How Ill-Conceived Stabilisation Blocks Political Progress, and Risks Renewed War

Can Kasapoğlu
Control of the Syrian Airspace

Russian Geopolitical Ambitions and Air Threat Assessment

SWP Research Papers

Mareike Transfeld, Isabelle Werenfels
#HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region

Guido Steinberg, Annette Weber (eds.)
Jihadism in Africa

Local Causes, Regional Expansion, International Alliances