Sasan Aghlani
BA POLITICS (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) MSC INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (LSE)
Overview
Centre for Iranian Studies
PhD Student Associate Member
- Name:
- Sasan Aghlani
- Email address:
- 211353@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Nuclear Proliferation, non-Proliferation, and the Islamic Republic of Iran: Foreign and Security Policy under Wilayat al-Faqih.
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
My research concerns the way in which the rulings and opinions of the Shi’i ulama in Iran relating to nuclear weapons feed back into the Islamic Republic’s defence policy. It will entail fieldwork at the seminaries of Qom, as well as in Tehran and Mashhad.
I hope to outline for the first time in English the stances of Iran’s most influential religious scholars and political strategists towards nuclear weapons; and to explore the ways in which Iran’s security and defence strategies are shaped by Islam.
Research
International Relations theory; Security Studies; critical theory; Realism; political Islam (particularly Shi’i political thought); Islamic philosophy; diplomacy; Iran; Lebanon; Iraq; Michel Foucault; E.H. Carr.
