Dr. Walter POSCH Senior Researcher, National Defence Academy, Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management, Vienna
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| 1985-1986 | compulsory military services, reserve officer |
| 1986-1992 | Turkish and Islamic Studies at Vienna University |
| 1993-1994 | Archival Research in Istanbul, studying Turkish and Persian manuscripts |
| 1995-1999 | PhD in Iranian Studies, Bamberg, Germany |
| 2000-2001 | Central Documentation, National Defence Academy (NDA), Vienna |
| 2001-2004 | Middle-East expert at the Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management, National Defence Academy (NDA); focussing on Iran, Iraq, Turkey and the Kurdish Issue, Vienna |
| 2004-2009 | Middle-East expert at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Paris; covering the same area |
| 2010-2014 | Middle-East expert focussing on Iran at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), deputy head of department |
| since 2015 | Senior Researcher, National Defence Academy (NDA), Vienna |
Publikationen
| "Ideology and Strategy in the Middle East: the Case of Iran" in Survival, 59.5 October-November 2017, pp. 69-98 | |
| "Der Sicherheitsapparat der Islamischen Republik Iran" in Ludwig Paul (editor) Handbuch der Iranistik, Vol II pp. 148-159 |
