Academic Editor, Third World Quarterly
Research Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics, Deakin University, Australia
Research interests:
Middle East politics, Central Asia politics, Political Islam and extremism, Islam in the West.
About
Shahram Akbarzadeh is an Academic Editor for Third World Quarterly and Research Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics. He is the Convenor of Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Deputy Director (International) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (Deakin University, Australia).
He held the prestigious ARC Future Fellowship between 2013-2016, and was named Australia’s leading researcher in Middle East and Islamic Studies (The Australian Special Report 2020). In 2023, Shahram Akbarzadeh was appointed nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (Doha). His research focus includes transnational linkages and the international relations of the Middle East. He has recently led a project on the securitisation of Kurdish identity sponsored by Gerda Henkel Stiftung and a project on proxy wars in the Middle East funded by Carnegie Corporation.
Akbarzadeh has published more than 60 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals. He has also authored and co-authored several books including Middle East Politics and International Relations: Crisis Zone (Routledge, 2023), Edward Elgar Handbook of Middle East Politics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023), and Presidential Elections in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Akbarzadeh is the founding series editor of the Palgrave Studies in Iranian Politics.
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