Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin

Born in Istanbul and educated at the Universities of Hamburg, American (Washington DC) and Cambridge, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam lectures on politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The author of Iran in World Politics: The question of the Islamic Republic (Hurst/ Columbia University Press, 2007/2008) and The International Politics of the Persian Gulf (Routledge, 2006), he was the first Jarvis Doctorow Fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. He was also elected Honorary Fellow of the Cambridge European Trust Society at the University of Cambridge. His latest publication Iran in World Politics: The question of the Islamic Republic is now available for worldwide distribution from Hurst & Co., Amazon and Columbia University Press.

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Imported anarchy in Iraq

A “quasi” state searching for internal and regional stability

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 4th April 2008

irakarshin.jpgRecently, officials in Washington D.C., London, and Paris have claimed that, for ordinary Iraqis, the security situation has been improved by the surge in U.S. troops. However, the Iraqi people continue to suffer, with thousands dead, millions injured, and millions more displaced. What led to this anarchic situation and how can it be contained?

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The futility of sanctioning Tehran

“Isolated Iran”, myth or reality?

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 15th January 2008

ahmadinejad.jpgThe author argues that far from being isolated, Iran is embedded in myriad political and economic relations with global outreach. Sanctioning Iran is thus a futile strategy and needs to be substituted with a systematic effort to establish diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran, once the belligerent Bush and Ahmadinejad administrations leave office.

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Why the US is losing in Iraq

Lessons not learned from the last four years

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 27th December 2007

Understand why the United States and his allies are unable to win in Iraq in spite of their overwhelming military force. Understand which is the role that plays the merger of the Wahhabi neo-fundamentalism, the Arab ultra-nationalism and the Shia revolutionism.

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The new anti-Iranianism

When the American Media targets Tehran

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 25th October 2007

The author discusses his views about a form of new anti-Iranianism referring to a general attitude of disrespect and vengefulness supported by the American media post 9-11, sighting examples such as the visit of Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to New York.

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Uprising Against the ‘War on Terror’

The danger to international security of US Foreign Policy

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 5th February 2007

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam writes on how with the growing conflict in Somalia, and the rising tension over Iran’s nuclear program, it is the United States that has worsened the situation, taking violent, unjust, unilateral action with disastrous results. The War on Terror, Moghaddam writes, has been used as an excuse to perpetuate illegal intervention, international anarchy, and hegemonic control of the world. And while Iran is currently being portrayed as a danger to regional security, it is the US and Israel that present the real dangers. The rational majority must rise up against the dangerous ideology of US Foreign Policy in favour of coexistence and positive solutions to endemic problems.

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