Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Lecturer in

International Relations

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Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a Lecturer in the International Relations of the Middle East in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He previously taught at the University of York, Goldsmiths, SOAS, Exeter, and the University of Oxford. He received his DPhil from Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2016 to 2019.

He is the author of Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2019), co-editor of Political Parties in the Middle East (Routledge, 2019), and editor of the expanded edition of Fred Halliday’s Iran: Dictatorship and Development (Oneworld, 2024). He is series editor of Radical Histories of the Middle East and writes regularly on Middle East politics, Iran, sanctions, and international affairs for JadaliyyaNew Left Review: SidecarLondon Review of BooksForeign PolicyJacobinAl Jazeera, and The Guardian.