In an op-ed published in the Global Times, BSIS PhD student Moritz Pieper comments on the state of Iran nuclear talks and the issue linkage between the P5+1 talks and the Ukraine crisis made by Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov.
The article can be accessed here: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/857314.shtml#.U2EG8Vd_T1V.
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. More information at https://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/staff/profiles/research/pieper.html