Abdolrasool (Farzam) Divsallar is a visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations (ASERI). He is also a Senior Researcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. Professor Divsallar’s area of research lies at the intersection of security studies and regional studies, including regional security governance, military strategies and civil-military relations in the Middle East, security assistance, non-proliferation and arms control, and Iranian foreign and security policy. Previously, he co-led the Regional Security Initiative at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence between 2020 and 2022. He led a combined research and dialogue project to rethink the security architecture in the Persian Gulf region. Divsallar was a Policy Leader Fellow at the EUI School of Transnational Governance in 2019-2020. Between 2005 and 2018, he worked in Tehran in various positions, including at the Institute for the Middle East Strategic Studies, Defense Industries Training and Research Institute, and the Center for Strategic Studies. 
Dr. Divsallar received his Ph.D. in political science-Iranian studies from the University of Tehran. He has extensive experience with fieldwork, particularly in the southeast provinces of Iran, where he conducted studies on the dynamics of the Security-Development nexus. He has taught both in Iran and Europe and has written and edited eight books, including Struggle for Alliance: Russia and Iran in the Era of War in Ukraine (2024) and Stepping Away from Abyss: A Gradual Approach Towards a New Security System in the Persian Gulf (2021). Divsallar has published dozens of academic papers in top international journals such as Mediterranean Politics, Washington Quarterly, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and the International Spectator.


Email: abdolrasool.divsallar@unicatt.it
Twitter: @Divsallar
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8606-9911