Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh
Deakin University
Contact
shahram@deakin.edu.auInstitution
Deakin University
Research Areas
Shahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor in Middle East and Central Asian Politics at Deakin University and the Deputy Director (International) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University (Australia). He held a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship (2013-2016) on the Role of Islam in Iran’s Foreign Policy-making and recently completed a Qatar Foundation grant on Sectarianism in the Middle East.
Professor Akbarzadeh has an extensive publication record and has contributed to public debate on topics such as democracy and political processes in the Middle East, regional rivalry and Islamic militancy. He has also researched and published on Muslim integration in Australia and citizenship debates.
Key Publications
Journal Articles
| Iranian Proxies in the Syrian Conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action (2023) | Akbarzadeh S, Ehteshami A and Gourlay W |
| Socio-Economic Disadvantages and Lack of Recognition: Impacts on Citizenship Within Australian Muslim Communities (2023) | Roose J M, Puecker M & Akbarzadeh S |
| Soft Power, Hard Power Dynamics: The Case of Iran in Afghanistan (2021) | Akbarzadeh S, Ahmed Z and Ibrahimi N |
| Pakistan caught between Iran and Saudi Arabia (2020) | Ahmed Z and Akbarzadeh S |
| Religionization of politics in Iran: Shi’i seminaries as the bastion of resistance (2020) | Ghobadzadeh N and Akbarzadeh S |
| Taliban: A New Proxy for Iran in Afghanistan? (2019) | Akbarzadeh S and Ibrahimi N |
| Transnational links and the Iranian Kurds: limits to mobilisation and political ambitions (2019) | Akbarzadeh S, Laoutides C, Gourlay W and Ahmed Z |
| Sectarianism and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (2019) | Ahmed Z and Akbarzadeh S |
| The Kurds in Iran: balancing national and ethnic identity in a securitised environment (2019) | Akbarzadeh S, Ahmed Z, Laoutides C and Gourlay W |
| Books | |
| Handbook of Middle East Politics | Akbarzadeh S (ed) |
Grants and Projects
| Carnegie Corporation NY project on Proxy Wars in Syria and Afghanistan | |
| Qatar Foundation project on Sectarianism in the Middle East | |
| Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on Islam in Iran's foreign policy making |