Biography
Mohammad Eslami holds a PhD in International Relations. His research focuses on international security, arms control, nuclear proliferation, emerging military technologies, the global arms trade, and Middle East security. He has published widely in journals such as International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Global Policy, Review of International Studies, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among others. He is the co-editor of academic books such as The Arms Race in the Middle East (Springer) and AI and International Security (Manchester University Press), and the author of Drones, Race, and International Security (Springer).
In 2024 and 2025, he served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Minho in Portugal, where he was also an Integrated Member of the Research Center for Political Science (CICP). In 2025, he was a Visiting Fellow at Dublin City University. He has also been a fellow of the Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA), led by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
As a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Mohammad will explore the emergence of three Middle Eastern states—namely Iran, Turkey, and Israel—as international arms suppliers. His project will examine the intersection of global arms networks with regional power dynamics, contributing to broader debates in international security and foreign policy.