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Rouzbeh Parsi

Nationality:

 Swedish

Languages:

 Swedish, English, Farsi, German

Areas of expertise: 

 Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf

Rouzbeh has been a Research Fellow at the EUISS since June 2009. He deals with Iran, Iraq and the Persian Gulf.

Previously he was a Lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Human Rights Studies (2003-2009) at Lund University Sweden which he helped set up. He holds a PhD in History from Lund University on identity formation and nationalism in modern Iran.

Rouzbeh's research interests include the domestic political developments of Iran and their foreign policy implications, governance and political culture in Iran and Iraq, and regional relations. He has worked on the development and change of political concepts that while universal are also locally embedded, e.g. modernisation, religion, nationalism and secularisation.

At the EUISS Rouzbeh has published on Iran's nuclear programme, political developments and regional affairs. He organises seminars in Paris and Sweden and participates in international conferences and advises policy makers in EU institutions and Member States.

 

Publications

  • REX40215498_000002

    The dominoes of war with Iran

    Is increasingly belligerent rhetoric in Washington and in Israel concerning Iran in danger of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy? Is it too late to stop the juggernaut of war?

  • Iran: a revolutionary republic in transition

    Iran is in the throes of a transition where its fundamental tenets are being called into question. This paper provides an in-depth assessment of Iranian state and society since the 1979 revolution, focusing particularly on the social and political turmoil of the past five years.

  • Javanese shadow puppets, Indonesia ©SIPA

    A never-ending spectacle: the IAEA report and Iran’s nuclear programme

    The epically hyped IAEA report on Iran's nuclear programme contains a stunning lack of what the media and politicians have been saying is in it. So what were they trying to achieve by doing this? Rouzbeh Parsi explores.

Activities

  • Iran 2010

    Iran Working Group Meeting

    Examining and analysing Iranian domestic developments and the way ahead for EU-Iran relations, this working group meeting took place at the EUISS in Paris on 9 February 2010.