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Prof A Ehteshami, BA (Hons) in Social Sciences, PhD in Politics

Professor and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab world in the School of Government and International Affairs
Durham University Dean of Internationalisation in the International Office
Special Advisor to the Islamic Crimnal Justice Project in the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Contact (email at a.ehteshami@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

Research Interests

  • International relations of the Middle East
  • Persian Gulf
  • Security and strategic studies of the Middle East

Publications

Books: authored

  • Ehteshami, Anoush 2007. Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Old Games, New Rules. London: Routledge. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Ehteshami, Anoush & Zweiri, Mahjoob 2007. Iran and the Rise of its Neoconservatives:The Politics of Tehran's Silent Revolution. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Ehteshami A & Lynne Rienner 2002. The Foreign Policies of Middle East States.
  • Ehteshami A 2001. Iran’s Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era. Rand Corporation.
  • Ehteshami A 1999. Political Economy of European Union- Middle East Relations.
  • Ehteshami A & Hinnebusch, R 1997. Syria and Iran: Middle Powers in a Penetrated Regional System.

Books: edited

  • Ehteshami, A, Alexander T.J. Lennon & ed. 2002. Tehran's Tocsin in Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-First Century. MIT Press.
  • Ehteshami A, Mark Webber, Michael Smith & eds 2002. The Middle East� � Iran and Israel, in Foreign Policy in a Transformed World. Prentice-Hall.

Books: sections

Departmental working papers

Edited works: contributions

  • Ehteshami, Anoush 2009. 'Iran's Regional Policies since the End of the Cold War'. In Contemporary Iran. Gheissari, Ali New York: Oxford University Press. 324-348. (Additional information)
  • Ehteshami, Anoush 2006. 'The Future of Iran's Defense and Nuclear Policy'. In Iranian Challenges. Posch, Walter EU Institute for Security Studies. 73-85.
  • Ehteshami, Anoush 2006. 'The Middle east and Security Strategy'. In Security Strategy and Transatlantic Relations. Dannreuther, Roland & Peterson, John London: Routledge. 78-96.
  • Ehteshami, Anoush 2006. 'The Middle East: Between Ideology and Geopolitics'. In The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism: Global Responses, Global Consequences. Buckley, Mary & Singh, Robert Routledge. 104-120. (Additional information)
  • Ehteshami, Anoush 2005. 'Iran, the GCC and Europe: Alternative Strategies'. In A Window of Opportunity: Europe, Gulf Security and the Aftermath of the Iraq War. Koch, Christian & Neugart, Felix Dubai: Gulf Research Centre. 39-52.
  • Ehteshami, A. 2005. 'Islam as a Political Force in International Relations'. In Islam in World Politics. Lahoud, Nelly & Johns, Anthony London: Routledge. 29-53. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Journal papers: academic

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Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

  • Religion: Islamic fundamentalism
  • International: Defence & disputes: Middle Eastern politics
  • International: Defence & disputes: security & strategic affairs
  • International: Defence & disputes: international defence-related issues (nuclear proliferation, etc.)
  • International: Defence & disputes: Islamic fundamentalism
  • International: Defence & disputes: Arab-Israeli relations
  • International: Politics, institutions & law: Middle East
  • International: Politics, institutions & law: Central Asia
  • International: Politics, institutions & law: defence
  • Middle East: Iran, Iraq & other Gulf states
  • Middle East: Islamic fundamentalism
  • Middle East: Politics of the Red Sea

Supervises

  • Mr Mohammed Shareef