Dr Luciano Zaccara
Honorary Research Fellow
Director of the Election Watch of Arab and Islamic Countries, Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain. Financed by Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI); Human Rights Department of Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; and Spanish Foreign Policy Watch (OPEX) of Alternatives Foundation. (2005-Present).
http://www.election-watch.org English site).
(http://www.observatorioelectoral.es Spanish site).
Research Fellow at Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain.
Honorary Research Fellow and Associate at Center for Persian and Iranian Studies, IAIS.
Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (Master of Advanced Studies) on International Mediterranean Studies. Department of Arab and Islamic Studies, Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain, September 2000.
Licenciatura Degree in Political Science. Political Science College, National University of Rosario, Argentina, 1995.
Research interests
Iranian political system and elections.
Iranian foreign policy.
Elections and electoral systems in Arab and Islamic countries
Latest publications:
Electoral Profile: Iran / Presidential election 12 June 2009, at TEIM Election Watch Analysis, Madrid, 12 July 2009.
Elecciones sin elección. Procesos electorales en Oriente Medio y el Magreb (Elections without election. Electoral processes in the Middle East and the Maghreb). Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio and Luciano Zaccara (eds.), Ediciones del Oriente y el Mediterráneo, Madrid, 2009 (ISBN: 978-84-96327-73-3).
‘El clero y la crisis política iraní’ (The Clergy and the Iranian Political Crisis), in El País newspaper, Madrid 24 July 2009.
‘Irán ¿unas elecciones para el cambio?’ (Iran, Elections for change?), Analysis of Institute Elcano of International and Strategic Studies 107/2009, 30 June 2009
‘irán, 12 de junio: la república islámica desvelada’ in Política Exterior Nº 130. Madrid, July / August 2009, pp. 51-64. (ISSN 0213-6856).
Los enigmas de Irán: Sociedad y política en la Republica Islámica (The Iranian enigma: Society and Politics in the Islamic Republic), Capital Intelectual, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July, 2006.
‘Las elites en Arabia Saudí’ (‘Elites in Saudi Arabia’), with Eduard Soler, in Ferrán Izquierdo (Ed.), Poder y regímenes en el mundo árabe actual, Bellaterra/Cidob Publisher, Barcelona (in press).
‘Observación independiente de las elecciones legislativas de Jordania del 20 de noviembre de 2007’ (‘Independent monitoring of Legislative Elections in Jordan, 20 November 2007’), in Observación Electoral Internacional. Sentido, actores y retos, Rubén Martínez Dalmau (ed.), Ediciones del CEPS, Valencia, 2008.
‘¿Quién gobierna Irán? La estructura política de la república islámica’ (Who rules Iran? The political structure of the Islamic Republic) in Revista Culturas Nº 3. Sevilla, January 2009, pp 8-17.
‘2007, año de elecciones en los países árabes e islámicos’ (‘2007, Year of elections at Arab and Islamic Countries’) in Política Exterior Nº 121. Madrid, January/February 2008, pp. 121-130.
‘Ahmadineyad entre la espada y la pared’ (‘Ahmadineyad between the Sword and the Wall’), in Política Exterior Nº 116. Madrid, Spain, March / April 2007, pp. 99-110.
