BSIS PhD student Moritz Pieper recently published an article in The Atlantic Post. His article reflects on France’s spoiling game in the latest P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran that saw a potentially historic deal with Iran fall through due to France’s interjection.
The article is available here: http://www.theatlanticpost.com/foreign-policy/france-assumes-bad-cop-role-us-p51-nuclear-talks-iran-5448.html
The focus of Moritz Pieper’s research is on regional and inter-regional power dynamics in the Middle East and Central Asia, with a special interest in non-Western foreign policies toward the Iranian nuclear programme. His PhD dissertation analyzes Chinese, Russian and Turkish foreign policy toward the Iranian nuclear programme, reflecting on the emergence of alternative narratives of diplomacy in a world of conflicting power centres and on changing conceptions of security cultures toward Iran. He is supervised by Dr. Tom Casier.