Maysam Behravesh

Maysam Behravesh is a co-founder and co-director of the London-based Center for Middle East Research (CMER) and Editorial Assistant of the academic journal Cooperation and Conflict (Sage). He has an M.A. (summa cum laude) in international relations from the University of Tehran, Iran, and is completing a Ph.D. in political science at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests center around security studies, nuclear politics, and political psychology, with an empirical focus on the Middle East and South Asia.

Maysam served as a Senior Editor of the quarterly Asian Politics & Policy (Wiley) from 2013 to 2015, and Iran Editor of the scholarly website E-International Relations (E-IR) from 2011 to 2014.