Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Ph.D
Associate Fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies
Contact
Mail: info@fathollah-nejad.eu
Twitter: @AFathollahNejad
Website: www.fathollah-nejad.eu
Profile
Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a German–Iranian political scientist and author with a focus on Iran, the Middle East, and the post-unipolar world order. He is Founder and Director of the Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG), a think-tank devoted to exploring transformations and promoting a foreign policy that reconciles interests and values. He is also a 2022 McCloy Fellow on Global Trends of the American Council on Germany (ACG). Among his publications are, most recently, The Islamic Republic in Existential Crisis: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in the EU’s Iran Policy (2023, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper), the much-acclaimed book Iran in an Emerging New World Order (2021, Palgrave), The Islamic Republic of Iran Four Decades On: The 2017/18 Protests Amid a Triple Crisis (2020, Brookings), where he suggested the start of a long-term revolutionary process in Iran. His forthcoming book is titled Iran – How the West is Betraying its Values and Interests (in German, Aufbau).
Ali is also the former Iran expert of the Brookings Institution in Doha (BDC, 2017–20), the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP, 2015–18), and the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB-IFI, 2022–24). He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and was the winner of the 2016/17 post-doctoral fellowship of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Iran Project. He taught, among others, at universities in London, Berlin, Doha, Tübingen, and Prague.
Research Interests
Middle East | Iran | Western foreign policy toward the Middle East | Post-unipolar world order
Selection of publications
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The Islamic Republic in Crisis and the Need for a Paradigm Shift in the EU’s Iran Policy, Chaillot Paper, Paris: European Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), 2023. link to publication
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Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. link to publication
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The Islamic Republic of Iran Four Decades On: The 2017/18 Protests Amid a Triple Crisis, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution & Doha: Brookings Doha Center • Arabic translation: Brookings Doha, 2020. link to publication
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(& 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 (LSE’s foreign policy think-tank) 2019, pp. 50–53. link to publication