In April 2023, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced the normalisation of diplomatic ties with
China's mediation. Notably, Saudi Arabia sought China's mediation during **'s visit …

The perplexing nature of Iran's nuclear program is evident in its simultaneous growth of
enrichment capacity and the concurrent denial of any aspirations toward nuclear weapons …

The role of the US as an off-or on-shore balancer in the Middle East has decreased in the
past decade. This generated a higher degree of autonomy among powerful states in the …

Since 2011, Saudi foreign policy has shifted from its traditional position of self‐restraint and
reliance on soft power to an assertive and adventurous one that prioritizes expanding …

The restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in March 2023 has
been described as a landmark in China's advancing engagement in Middle Eastern affairs …

The weight of ideational factors has always been felt in Iran's foreign policy processes as it,
often times, outweighs that of material factors in its strategic calculus. Since 1979, the …

The existing accounts of the Iranian nuclear programme and the JCPOA suffer from
ontological exteriority, in conjunction with the problematic conception of the state and …

Since its launch in 2014, the blog Progress in Political Economy (PPE)–available at www.
ppesyd ney. net/–has become a central forum for the dissemination and debate of political …

Relations between Tehran and Baghdad, from the Baath Party's coup in 1968 to the US
invasion of Iraq in 2003, were neither neighborly nor normal. Therefore, the overthrow of …

This chapter traces how both the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
employed “sectarianism” as ideational weapons, along with accruing ever more …