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Trained as a historian of international relations, Dr Clément Therme is a Research Associate at
the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. His research focus on the
history and politics of (non)-proliferation with Iran as a case study as well as Iran’s regional
policy since 1945. He is also a teaching fellow at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA)
of Sciences Po and a lecturer at the University of Montpellier III. Previously, he was a Research
Fellow for Iran at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Lecturer at the
National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut national des langues et
civilisations orientales, INALCO) in Paris.

His articles have appeared in Diplomacy & Statecraft, The Middle East Journal, Iranian
Studies, Politique étrangère, Maghreb-Machrek and Politique américaine, and he is the author of
Les relations entre Téhéran et Moscou depuis 1979 (PUF, 2012) and the co-editor of a book
entitled Iran and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (Mazda Publishers, 2013) and the
editor of a book entitled L’Iran et ses rivaux (Passés composes, 2020).