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GlobIS Review, Issue 6

Issue 6 October 2026 Iran and the New Middle East?

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GlobIS Review · Issue 6

Iran and the New Middle East?

October 2026

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ISSN 2818-9434

Editorial NoteEditorial Note: Iran and the New Middle East?EditorialSince 9/11, the Middle East has undergone profound political, economic, and social transformations. Long-standing regimes in several Arab states have been…

Dialogue

DialogueNew Horizons in Studying Iran–US RelationsAfshin Matin-AsgariIn 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…

DialogueThe Crown Center: Middle East Studies at Regional and Global IntersectionNaghmeh Sohrabi / Ramyar RossoukhIn this conversation, Arang Keshavarzian discusses the history of Middle East studies and recent regional developments with Naghmeh Sohrabi and Ramyar…

Iranian Studies in the World

Book ReviewHow Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic WarfareMahmood MonshipouriThis timely, conceptually rich, and methodologically sound book draws on multiyear, long-form oral history interviews with many Iranians inside Iran…

Review EssayRethinking Iran’s Grand Strategy with Vali NasrEsmaeil IzadiVali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2025) provides a historically grounded reinterpretation of Iranian foreign policy.

Book ReviewWhen Categories Cease to Explain: Political Science and the Middle East after the Arab UprisingsFarideh ShahriariThe Arab uprisings unsettled more than rulers, alliances, and territorial orders. They unsettled the conceptual grammar through which political science…

Book IntroductionGlobal Middle EastAsef Bayat and Linda HerreraRarely do localities, countries, and regions develop over centuries and millennia in isolation; rather, they develop in complex interaction with others.

Book ReviewWar as the Production of SpaceAidin TorkamehThere 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…

Social Science in Iran

Book ReviewIran’s National Security on the Border of Thought and Might: Re-reading Political Rivalries in the Contemporary Middle EastSamar SaremiThe book Political Tendencies in the Middle East and Iran’s National Security critically examines the relationship between the Islamic Republic’s regional…

Book ReviewDominant Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East: A Critical AssessmentNima ShojaeiIdentity and Foreign Policy in Iran and the Middle East is originally written as Rahman Ghahramanpour’s doctoral dissertation in Political Science at…

Novel ReviewAn Impossible Love for the Persian Cat in LebanonShima VezvaeiBeyrut, intentionally spelled incorrectly instead of Beirut, by Ebrahim Akbari Dizgah, moves formally between a novel, a travelogue, and a…

Book ReviewThe Axis of Resistance and the New Middle EastMarzieh Kouhi EsfahaniThe Axis of Resistance: Iran, Israel and the Struggle for the Middle East offers fresh insight into the Axis of Resistance as one of the most significant…

New Releases

New ReleasesNew Releases*EditorialEight new books: What Is the Middle East? The Theory and Practice of Regions; America and Iran; Heroes to Hostages; The Long War on Iran; Trump and Iran…

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