Ali Alfoneh is a visiting research fellow at AEI and a doctoral candidate in the department of political science at the University of Copenhagen. His research areas include civil-military relations in Iran with a special focus on the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Islamic Republic. Mr. Alfoneh has been a research fellow at the Institute for Strategy at the Royal Danish Defence College and has taught political economy at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.

-Research fellow, Copenhagen Middle East Research Programme, 2004-2006

-Lecturer, University of Southern Denmark, 2003-2004

-Research assistant, Office of the President of the European Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament, 2002-2003

-Independent researcher, Institute for Political and International Studies, Tehran, 2003

-Elected member, Herlev (Denmark) City Council, 1994-99

Education

K.A., University of Copenhagen

B.A., University of Copenhagen

Articles and Short Publications

Ahmadinejad versus the Clergy The End of Ahmadinejad? انتخابات مجلس ایران و کودتای خزندۀ سپاه پاسداران

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Events

Iran in Three Dimensions Iranian Influence in the Middle East and Beyond