Dr. Payam Ghalehdar

Dr. Payam Ghalehdar is a Research Fellow at the Chair for International Relations.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • US foreign policy
  • International security
  • Emotions in foreign policy decision-making


CV

  • Since March 2020:

    Research Fellow at the Chair for International Relations (Prof. Anja Jetschke), Department of Political Science, University of Göttingen

  • 2017-2019:

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

  • 2015-2016:

    Lecturer (International Relations) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge

  • 2010-2015:

    Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (doctorate)


Publications (selected)

  • 2016. “Konsistenz bitte! Fiaskos als Divergenz zwischen Reden und Handeln,” Zeitschrift für
    Politik
    63 (2), 184-195.
  • 2014. “Der traumatische Verlust eines Verbündeten: Warum die Vereinigten Staaten die
    Islamische Republik nicht anerkennen,” Andreas M. Bock & Ingo Henneberg (ed.): Iran, die
    Bombe und das Streben nach Sicherheit: Strukturierte Konfliktanalysen
    . Baden-Baden:
    Nomos, 205-224.