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The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical Artificial Intelligence (2025)
Book
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2025). The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical Artificial Intelligence. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526189516

The myth of good AI offers a bold new approach to understanding artificial intelligence and its implications for human security. Dismantling the ‘good AI’ narrative pedalled by tech giants, the book exposes the full extent of AI’s nefarious impact on... Read More about The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical Artificial Intelligence.

The ‘Eastern’ Origins of ‘Western’ Philosophy: Against Eurocentricism (2023)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2023). The ‘Eastern’ Origins of ‘Western’ Philosophy: Against Eurocentricism. Folia Orientalia, 60, 311-327. https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2023.148427

The article sets the signposts of a theft in history, as it charters the way the discipline of Philosophy has been narrated as a ‘western’ system of thought. We follow the global sources of Philosophy and establish how better knowledge and education... Read More about The ‘Eastern’ Origins of ‘Western’ Philosophy: Against Eurocentricism.

Racist Artificial Intelligence: Where does it come from? (2023)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2023). Racist Artificial Intelligence: Where does it come from?. Faṣlnāmah-i muṭāli̒āt-i biyn/al- milalī فصلنامه مطالعات بینالمللی (Print) (چاپی), 20(2), 139-159. https://doi.org/10.22034/ISJ.2023.182419

How did racism creep into the algorithms that govern our daily lives, from banking and shopping, to job applications? Connecting the legacy of enlightenment racism to forms of discrimination in modern day algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, this... Read More about Racist Artificial Intelligence: Where does it come from?.

Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? The Ethics of AI and the Future of Humanity (2023)
Book
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2023). Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? The Ethics of AI and the Future of Humanity. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350374430

How did racism creep into the algorithms that govern our daily lives, from banking and shopping, to job applications? Connecting the legacy of enlightenment racism to forms of discrimination in modern day algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, this... Read More about Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? The Ethics of AI and the Future of Humanity.

World Politics after the War in Ukraine: Non-polarity and its South Asian Dimensions (2022)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2022). World Politics after the War in Ukraine: Non-polarity and its South Asian Dimensions. IPRI journal, 22(2), 61-75. https://doi.org/10.31945/iprij.220204

The world is evolving towards a realization that no individual state or power could steer the world as a unipolar power. The end of the Cold War and the global competition over international suzerainty after the Second... Read More about World Politics after the War in Ukraine: Non-polarity and its South Asian Dimensions.

Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran (2022)
Thesis
Beyad, M. M. Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to explore the ways in which the Iranian and Iraqi states articulated and represented Gulf regional politics from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. In recognising the limited amount of work looking at the role of discourses and ideas... Read More about Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran.

Football and the media construction of Iranian national identity during the FIFA World Cup 2018 and AFC Asian Cup 2019 (2021)
Journal Article
Ziaee, A., Elling, A., van Sterkenburg, J., van Hilvoorde, I., & Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2021). Football and the media construction of Iranian national identity during the FIFA World Cup 2018 and AFC Asian Cup 2019. Soccer and Society, 22(6), 613-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2021.1952691

Elite sport success in international tournaments is supposed to play an important role in shaping national identity. In this article, we explore if and how this applies to the Iranian context. The current study made use of a Google alert with the tit... Read More about Football and the media construction of Iranian national identity during the FIFA World Cup 2018 and AFC Asian Cup 2019.

What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces (2021)
Book
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2021). What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108953351

What is Iran? What are its domestic politics? Its history? Its international relations? Here, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam sheds fresh light on these questions, offering a general introduction to everything there is to know about this country. Uniquely, he... Read More about What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces.

The Myth Of “National Identity”: Psycho-Nationalism In Iran And The Arab World = 「国民意識」の言説：イランとアラブ世界におけるサイコナショナリズム (2019)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2019). The Myth Of “National Identity”: Psycho-Nationalism In Iran And The Arab World = 「国民意識」の言説：イランとアラブ世界におけるサイコナショナリズム. JETRO-IDE Middle East Review = 中東レビュー = Chuto rebyu, 7, 51-64. https://doi.org/10.24765/merev.Vol.7_E-Art01

Fear and Insecurity : Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship (2019)
Thesis
Leslie, J. G. Fear and Insecurity : Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Years after the Islamic Republic of Iran resumed its nuclear development program, Israeli leaders began constructing a narrative aimed at instilling in their polity the fear of Iran as an existential threat to the Jewish State. Building upon Israel’s... Read More about Fear and Insecurity : Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship.

After the West: Critical Movements in the Discipline of International Relations (2019)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2019). After the West: Critical Movements in the Discipline of International Relations. Faṣlnāmah-i muṭāli̒āt-i biyn/al- milalī فصلنامه مطالعات بینالمللی (Print) (چاپی), 15(4), 43-51

This short intervention peruses new movements in the discipline of International Relations with a particular emphasis on the “post-western” turn in IR theory which promises to usher into better concepts for the analysis of world politics.