Kayhan Barzegar

Barzegar is chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Science and Research Campus of Islamic Azad University in Iran. He is also director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran. From 2007 to 2011 he was a research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and in 2002 and 2003 was a postdoctoral research scholar at the London School of Economics.

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Articles by Kayhan Barzegar

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
25 February 2013
Middle East

An exclusive club with a hidden agenda

Kayhan Barzegar

I began this Roundtable believing that the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a discriminatory export-control regime, and my conviction hasn't wavered.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
28 January 2013
Middle East

Remembering what’s complementary, what’s central

Kayhan Barzegar

In their first round-essays, the three authors in this Roundtable asserted two things in common, albeit in different ways: first, that a narrow line separates peaceful nuclear activities from nuclear proliferation, and it is critical that members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) strike a bal

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 January 2013
AsiaMiddle East

Contributions to peace and development, not excessive control

Kayhan Barzegar

Answering the question that this Roundtable poses -- How could the policies of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) be improved to better take into account the needs and perspectives of developing countries?

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
31 December 2012

Paths forward for the Nuclear Suppliers Group

Rajiv NayanKayhan BarzegarRaymund Jose G. Quilop

Though the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) may well be indispensable for nonproliferation, its membership of mainly wealthy nations sometimes provokes suspicion in the developing world. Can the NSG contribute to nonproliferation and also remain fair to developing countries?

1 November 2010
Global forum

The Iranian quagmire: How to move forward.

Kayhan Barzegar
As the writers in this symposium illustrate, dealing with Iran’s nuclear program is one of the most important foreign policy issues of the day. Years of stalled talks, diplomatic dead-ends, and sanctions have made it