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Overview

Mehran Kamrava is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their academic work primarily resides within the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, urban studies, and gender studies.

Their research topics encompass Islamic studies and history, conflicts in the Middle East and Rwanda, economic sanctions and international relations, politics and conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the broader Middle East region, terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence, interactions between religion and society, and Turkey's politics and society.

Mehran Kamrava has contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

  • Cities, Globalized Hubs, and Nationalism in the Persian Gulf (2020), published in The Middle East Journal
  • Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (2021), published in the Journal of Arabian Studies
  • Institutions and Policy in Iran's Relations with the GCC (2021), published in The Muslim World

Frequent co-authors include Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi, with whom they have collaborated on four papers, and Hamideh Dorzadeh, a collaborator on one paper.

Mehran Kamrava has published in several academic venues, most notably:

  • The Muslim World (5 publications)
  • Middle East Policy (2 publications)
  • Sociology of Islam (2 publications)
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2 publications)
  • The Middle East Journal (1 publication)

Their scholarly output extends to book publications, with works published by prominent presses including Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, and Oxford University Press. Titles published with Cambridge University Press include:

  • How Islam Rules in Iran (2024)
  • Righteous Politics (2023)
  • A Dynastic History of Iran (2022)

Other book publications include The Impossibility of Palestine (2020) by Yale University Press and Triumph and Despair (2023) by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Qatar: Small State, Big Politics

    Mehran Kamrava

  • The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War

    Mehran Kamrava

  • The Modern Middle East

    Mehran Kamrava

  • A consumer behavioural approach to food waste

    Emel Aktas;Hafize Sahin;Zeynep Topaloglu;Akunna Oledinma

  • Military Professionalization and Civil‐Military Relations in the Middle East

    Mehran Kamrava

  • The Arab Spring and the Saudi-Led Counterrevolution

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Iran's Intellectual Revolution

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Mediation and Qatari Foreign Policy

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Royal Factionalism and Political Liberalization in Qatar

    Mehran Kamrava

  • The new voices of Islam : rethinking politics and modernity : a reader

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Migrant labor in the Persian Gulf

    Mehran Kamrava;Zahra Babar

  • Civil society and democratisation in comparative perspective: Latin America and the Middle East

    Mehran Kamrava;Frank O Mora

  • Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Politics and Society in the Third World

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Non-democratic states and political liberalisation in the Middle East: A structural analysis

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Pseudo‐democratic politics and populist possibilities: the rise and demise of Turkey's Refah party

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Understanding Comparative Politics: A Framework for Analysis

    Mehran Kamrava

  • The Political History of Modern Iran: From Tribalism to Theocracy

    Mehran Kamrava

  • The Civil Society Discourse in Iran

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Beyond the Arab Spring : the evolving ruling bargain in the Middle East

    Mehran Kamrava

  • Suspended Equilibrium in Iran's Political System

    Mehran Kamrava;Houchang Hassan-Yari

  • Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran

    Mehran Kamrava

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark McGillivray
Mark McGillivray Deakin University
Alex de Waal
Alex de Waal Tufts University
Arland Thornton
Arland Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zahir Irani
Zahir Irani University of Bradford
Daniel Byman
Daniel Byman Georgetown University

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