Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a political scientist educated in
Germany, France and the Netherlands. He is currently a
Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the universities
of London (School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS)
and Münster (Germany). In 2010, Fathollah-Nejad was a
visiting lecturer in development and globalization (with a
focus on the Middle East) at the University of Westminster
in London. He is the author of The Iran Conflict and the
Obama Administration (in German), published by Potsdam
University Press in 2010 (reprinted in 2011 and 2012). He is also a member of the
working group on security policy of the civil society initiative for a Conference for
Security and Cooperation in the Middle East (CSCME).