EditorialSince 9/11, the Middle East has undergone profound political, economic, and social transformations. Long-standing regimes in several Arab states have been…
- Afshin Matin-Asgari
In this dialogue, Azam Khatam speaks with Afshin Matin-Asgari, special advisor on this issue, about his new book, Axis of Empire, and how Iran–US…
- Naghmeh Sohrabi and Ramyar Rossoukh
In this conversation, Arang Keshavarzian discusses the history of Middle East studies and recent regional developments with Naghmeh Sohrabi and Ramyar…
- Mahmood MonshipouriHow Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare, by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez
This timely, conceptually rich, and methodologically sound book draws on multiyear, long-form oral history interviews with many Iranians inside Iran…
- Esmaeil IzadiIran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History, by Vali Nasr
Vali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2025) provides a historically grounded reinterpretation of Iranian foreign policy.
- Farideh ShahriariThe Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings, by Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom (eds.)
The Arab uprisings unsettled more than rulers, alliances, and territorial orders. They unsettled the conceptual grammar through which political science…
- Asef Bayat and Linda HerreraGlobal Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century, by Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera (eds.)
Rarely do localities, countries, and regions develop over centuries and millennia in isolation; rather, they develop in complex interaction with others.
- Aidin TorkamehSinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, by Laleh Khalili
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to return to Laleh Khalili’s Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (2020…
- Samar SaremiPolitical Tendencies in the Middle East and Iran’s National Security, by Hamid Ahmadi
The book Political Tendencies in the Middle East and Iran’s National Security critically examines the relationship between the Islamic Republic’s regional…
- Nima ShojaeiIdentity and Foreign Policy in Iran and the Middle East, by Rahman Ghahramanpour
Identity and Foreign Policy in Iran and the Middle East is originally written as Rahman Ghahramanpour’s doctoral dissertation in Political Science at…
