Hossein Aghaie Joobani is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. He serves as a Contributing Editor for the peer-reviewed Journal of Asian Politics and Policy (Wiley-Blackwell). He is interested in European and Middle Eastern politics, particularly Turkey, Iran and China relations with the European Union and Central Asian countries. His other research interests include issues pertaining to geopolitics, foreign policy analysis and security studies. Joobani holds a Master’s in Political Science from Linköping University, Sweden.