ECFR Alumni · Visiting Fellow
Russia, Middle East & North Africa, international relations, international security and defence, military intervention
English, Russian, Farsi, French
Nicole Grajewski is visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Her research focuses on Russian and Iranian approaches to international order, with a particular emphasis on the global nuclear order and nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Grajewski is a Stanton Nuclear Security postdoctoral fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ project on managing the atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she was a predoctoral fellow with the International Security programme at the Belfer Center and a Hans J Morgenthau fellow at Notre Dame’s International Security Center.
She holds a PhD in international relations and MPhil in Russian and east European studies from the University of Oxford. Nicole has published on a range of issues involving both Russia and Iran, including their respective bilateral relations, the Syrian civil war, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and Eurasian regional organisations. She has conducted extensive archival fieldwork and interviews with elites in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The war in Ukraine has led to unprecedented levels of cooperation between Russia and Iran. This new relationship poses a significant threat to European countries, whose governments should seek to mitigate the potential damage
Ellie Geranmayeh and Nicole Grajewski on Russia-Iran relations
In this interview, Nicole Grajewski explains what is at stake for Russia in the Israel-Gaza war
Russia and Iran can work in areas where there are common interests, but also avoid areas of tension and work more towards where they really have synergies
Ellie Geranmayeh and Nicole Grajewski discuss the extent to which Russia and Iran have come closer together and outline the new risks the West faces as the union deepens