Hamed Mousavi
Adjunct Professor
Hamed Mousavi is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He previously served as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University in 2015, with a dissertation examining how political ideologies shaped Israeli policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
His work sits at the intersection of international law, foreign policy analysis, and Middle East studies, with particular attention to the laws and politics of armed conflict, ideology, and state behavior in the Middle East.
He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on international security, theories of international relations, US foreign policy, and government and politics in the Middle East. He has supervised sixteen M.A. students and two Ph.D. students to completion, and has also held visiting and contract teaching positions at Carleton University.
His peer-reviewed publications include “The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy” in Middle East Policy, “Labor Zionist Ideology and the Foundation of Israeli Foreign Policy” in Asian Affairs, and “Fluctuations in Iran-Russia Relations During the Past Four Decades” in Iran and the Caucasus. He also co-authored the chapter on Israel in the Routledge textbook Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa: Development, Democracy, and Dictatorship.