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 (2012–2016) on the Role of Islam in Iran’s Foreign Policy-making and recently completed a Qatar Foundation grant on Sectarianism in the Middle East.

• 1. The blurred line between state identity and realpolitik Shahram Akbarzadeh2. Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Politics, Systemic Pressures, and the impact on Foreign Policy since the Arab Spring Thomas Juneau, Steven E. Lobell, Norrin Ripsman and Larry Rubin3. What constructivism? Vendulka Kubálková4. Historical sociology and Middle East international relations Ewan Stein5. Subaltern Realism Meets the Arab World Mohammad Ayoob 6. Islam, Political Islam, and the State System Frederic Volpi7. Don’t Shoot the Elephant: Middle East stability after the Iranian nuclear deal Patricia Lewis and Karim Kemal8. The Revolutionary Guard in Iranian Domestic and Foreign Power Politics Farzan Sabet and Roozbeh Safshekan9. The Arab Uprising and Regional Power Struggle Raymond Hinnesbuch10. U.S.-Israel Relations During the Obama Administration: Fundamental Shift, or Adaptation to New Realities? Robert Looney11. Saudi Arabia and Iran: Islam and Foreign Policy in the Middle East Simon Mabon12. The Arab Spring and Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East Mark Katz13. China’s Foray into the Middle East: from Ambivalence to Ambition? Michael Clarke 14. Oil Production, Innovation, and Politics in the Middle East Hamid E.Ali and Nesreen N. Al Anbar15. Qatar: An Ambitious Small State Matthew Gray 16. GCC Foreign Policy: The Struggle for Consensus Kristian Coates Ulrichsen17. EU Policy in the Middle East: Shifting Dynamics Christian Koch 18. Old and New Challenges for Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East Jordi Tejel19. UNSCR 1325: A Framework for Women’s Peace Activism in the Middle East? Sophie Richter-Devroe20. The demise of the Arab strongman? Authoritarianism and the future of the Middle East Pietro Marzo and Francesco Cavatorta21. State breakdown and its beneficiaries: the Kurds Denise Natali 22. Strategic decision-making of Middle Eastern armed non-state actors Wietse van den Berge23. Islamic State: Aberration, or Accelerant of System-wide Changes to Come? Michael S. Smith II24. The Iran-Hizbullah relationship in the Arab Spring Shahram Akbarzadeh25. The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda after the Arab Spring: a Failed Project Alison Pargeter26. Transition and the Arab Spring George Joffe27. Shock absorption Palestinian-Israel status quo 2009-17 Philip Leech-Ngo28. The rise and fall of Turkey in the Arab Spring Paul Williams

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 (2012–2016) on the Role of Islam in Iran’s Foreign Policy-making and recently completed a Qatar Foundation grant on Sectarianism in the Middle East.

• 1. The blurred line between state identity and realpolitik Shahram Akbarzadeh2. Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Politics, Systemic Pressures, and the impact on Foreign Policy since the Arab Spring Thomas Juneau, Steven E. Lobell, Norrin Ripsman and Larry Rubin3. What constructivism? Vendulka Kubálková4. Historical sociology and Middle East international relations Ewan Stein5. Subaltern Realism Meets the Arab World Mohammad Ayoob 6. Islam, Political Islam, and the State System Frederic Volpi7. Don’t Shoot the Elephant: Middle East stability after the Iranian nuclear deal Patricia Lewis and Karim Kemal8. The Revolutionary Guard in Iranian Domestic and Foreign Power Politics Farzan Sabet and Roozbeh Safshekan9. The Arab Uprising and Regional Power Struggle Raymond Hinnesbuch10. U.S.-Israel Relations During the Obama Administration: Fundamental Shift, or Adaptation to New Realities? Robert Looney11. Saudi Arabia and Iran: Islam and Foreign Policy in the Middle East Simon Mabon12. The Arab Spring and Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East Mark Katz13. China’s Foray into the Middle East: from Ambivalence to Ambition? Michael Clarke 14. Oil Production, Innovation, and Politics in the Middle East Hamid E.Ali and Nesreen N. Al Anbar15. Qatar: An Ambitious Small State Matthew Gray 16. GCC Foreign Policy: The Struggle for Consensus Kristian Coates Ulrichsen17. EU Policy in the Middle East: Shifting Dynamics Christian Koch 18. Old and New Challenges for Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East Jordi Tejel19. UNSCR 1325: A Framework for Women’s Peace Activism in the Middle East? Sophie Richter-Devroe20. The demise of the Arab strongman? Authoritarianism and the future of the Middle East Pietro Marzo and Francesco Cavatorta21. State breakdown and its beneficiaries: the Kurds Denise Natali 22. Strategic decision-making of Middle Eastern armed non-state actors Wietse van den Berge23. Islamic State: Aberration, or Accelerant of System-wide Changes to Come? Michael S. Smith II24. The Iran-Hizbullah relationship in the Arab Spring Shahram Akbarzadeh25. The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda after the Arab Spring: a Failed Project Alison Pargeter26. Transition and the Arab Spring George Joffe27. Shock absorption Palestinian-Israel status quo 2009-17 Philip Leech-Ngo28. The rise and fall of Turkey in the Arab Spring Paul Williams

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 (2012–2016) on the Role of Islam in Iran’s Foreign Policy-making and recently completed a Qatar Foundation grant on Sectarianism in the Middle East.

• 1. The blurred line between state identity and realpolitik Shahram Akbarzadeh2. Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Politics, Systemic Pressures, and the impact on Foreign Policy since the Arab Spring Thomas Juneau, Steven E. Lobell, Norrin Ripsman and Larry Rubin3. What constructivism? Vendulka Kubálková4. Historical sociology and Middle East international relations Ewan Stein5. Subaltern Realism Meets the Arab World Mohammad Ayoob 6. Islam, Political Islam, and the State System Frederic Volpi7. Don’t Shoot the Elephant: Middle East stability after the Iranian nuclear deal Patricia Lewis and Karim Kemal8. The Revolutionary Guard in Iranian Domestic and Foreign Power Politics Farzan Sabet and Roozbeh Safshekan9. The Arab Uprising and Regional Power Struggle Raymond Hinnesbuch10. U.S.-Israel Relations During the Obama Administration: Fundamental Shift, or Adaptation to New Realities? Robert Looney11. Saudi Arabia and Iran: Islam and Foreign Policy in the Middle East Simon Mabon12. The Arab Spring and Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East Mark Katz13. China’s Foray into the Middle East: from Ambivalence to Ambition? Michael Clarke 14. Oil Production, Innovation, and Politics in the Middle East Hamid E.Ali and Nesreen N. Al Anbar15. Qatar: An Ambitious Small State Matthew Gray 16. GCC Foreign Policy: The Struggle for Consensus Kristian Coates Ulrichsen17. EU Policy in the Middle East: Shifting Dynamics Christian Koch 18. Old and New Challenges for Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East Jordi Tejel19. UNSCR 1325: A Framework for Women’s Peace Activism in the Middle East? Sophie Richter-Devroe20. The demise of the Arab strongman? Authoritarianism and the future of the Middle East Pietro Marzo and Francesco Cavatorta21. State breakdown and its beneficiaries: the Kurds Denise Natali 22. Strategic decision-making of Middle Eastern armed non-state actors Wietse van den Berge23. Islamic State: Aberration, or Accelerant of System-wide Changes to Come? Michael S. Smith II24. The Iran-Hizbullah relationship in the Arab Spring Shahram Akbarzadeh25. The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda after the Arab Spring: a Failed Project Alison Pargeter26. Transition and the Arab Spring George Joffe27. Shock absorption Palestinian-Israel status quo 2009-17 Philip Leech-Ngo28. The rise and fall of Turkey in the Arab Spring Paul Williams