Dr Shabnam J Holliday is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Plymouth. Her research is based around three themes: 1) The role of ideas in Iran and their relationship with domestic and international politics; 2) Approaches towards a more inclusive and non-Eurocentric IR; and 3) Political change, revolution, and legitimacy in post-revolutionary situations in IR. Her recent publications include with Edward Wastnidge, ‘Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations’, Review of International Studies; ‘Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes’, International Relations; and Populism, the international and methodological nationalism: global order and the Iran-Israel nexus, Political Studies. She is author of Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance, Routledge and co-editor with Philip Leech of Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East, Rowman and Littlefield International.