Luciano Zaccara is Research Assistant Professor in Gulf Politics at the Qatar University, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar, and Director of the Observatory on Politics and Elections in the Arab and Muslim World in Spain. He has been Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, a visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Iranian Studies at Princeton University, and Visiting Researcher at Exeter University, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He holds PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

Introduction.- Chapter 1 Exploring Rouhani's Foreign Policy Doctrine, 2013-2017.- Chapter 2 Rouhani's School of Thought: A Critical Discussion of its Developmental and Foreign Policy Doctrines.- Chapter 3 The Success and Failure of the Iranian Nuclear Deal JCPOA.- Chapter 4 Saudi-Iran Relations Across the Sectarian Divide.- Chapter 5 Iran's 'War on Terror': Iranian foreign policy towards Syria and Iraq during the Rouhani Era.- Chapter 6 Iran and Russia: between Pragmatism and the Dreamed Strategic Alliance. Chapter 7 Recovering opportunities: Iran's foreign policy toward Latin America (2013-2016).- Chapter 8 Determinants and Dynamics of Iran's Presence in Africa: The Case of Senegal.- Chapter 9 The Feasibility of Energy Cooperation Between Iran and the Gulf Arab States.- Chapter 10 Conclusion.