Dr. Sara Bazoobandi

“Purification” of the higher education and “jihad of knowledge” have assisted the Iranian government in advancing its military, cyber-based, and nuclear capabilities. This paper reviews these strategies and evaluates their outcomes.

The dynamics of the relationship between the United States and China have been shifting. This has prompted changes in strategic calculus and policy adoption by the friends and foes of each side. Iran, given its decades-long links with China, has made several.

Iran and Saudi Arabia’s agreement to restore diplomatic relations is a major development at the regional and global levels.

This article seeks to identify ways in which the foreign policy power hierarchy inside the Islamic Republic of Iran can be explained. It uses high-level diplomatic meetings as observable evidence in a novel analytical framework to identify the scope of competition and hierarchies in foreign policy decision-making processes. Results reveal that diplomatic activities of key foreign policy decision makers did not noticeably diverge.

Gulf Research Meeting 2023, Cambridge University, Cambridge Organisers: Gulf Research Centre Cambridge Hamid Talebian (Speaker), Dr. Sara Bazoobandi (Speaker)

Presentation of a draft paper by Dr. Sara Bazoobandi and Hamid Talebian at the annual Gulf Research Meeting conference.

Organiser: Institute for International Political Studies Dr. Sara Bazoobandi (Speaker)

The struggle for gender equality has remained hard to overcome for many MENA countries. Gender-based violence, lack of equal opportunities to economic activities, and deprivation from political participation and representation have been amongst the long list of such challenges. This event brings together experts of the field to share insights and analyses on the persistent gender inequalities across the region.