Dr Shabnam Holliday is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Plymouth. Her research focuses on de-centring the discipline of International Relations through the case of Iran. Her publications include “Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran-Israel Nexus,” Political Studies and with Edward Wastnidge, “Towards a Post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations”, Review of International Studies. She is editor of Sovereignty in Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). In 2023, she was appointed Research Director at the British Institute of Persian Studies following her time as Director of the Modern Research Project, ‘Iran and the International’. She is also a SEPAD Fellow.