PREDATOR STATE: 1/4: Iran is More Than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran Hardcover – by Brenda Shaffer (Author)
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
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https://www.amazon.com/Iran-More-Than-Persia-Politics/dp/311079621X
Iran is More than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran analyses Iranian politics from a unique perspective, one that focuses on the relations between the Persian-dominated Iranian state and the country's ethnic minorities. The book explores the stability of the ruling regime in light of the challenges that multiethnicity brings. Persians comprise less than half of the population of Iran and more than 40 percent of Iranians lack fluency in the Persian language. An overwhelming majority of non-Persian groups inhabit most of Iran's border regions; as such the book explores Iran's foreign policy toward neighboring states that share co-ethnic populations. Iran's ethnic minorities inhabit the state's poorest provinces and the country's growing environmental and water supply challenges hit the ethnic minority provinces harder than the Persian center, adding an ominous ethnic character to what are often presented as purely environmental or economic challenges. The book further examines the potential impact of ethnic based unrest in Khuzestan on Iran's oil production, Iran's main oil producing region. Drawing on a rich assortment of primary data and interviews, this book offers unparalled insights into ethnic politics in Iran. It will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates, researchers and professionals interested in the Middle East, international relations, and ethnic studies.
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| 0:40.8 | Iran is more than Persia, a new book from Professor Brenda Shaffer of the Foundation |
| 0:47.0 | for the Defense of Democracies, ethnic politics in Iran. |
| 0:51.6 | Iran is a bad actor part of the axis that is now attacking Ukraine. |
| 0:58.0 | However, Iran is a state that emerges from the 20th century, here in the 21st century, |
| 1:05.5 | with much paradox and Professor Shaffer's book introduces us to some aspects of those paradoxes. |
| 1:15.3 | Brenda, a very good evening to thank you for this Persian-ness and the farcey language |
| 1:21.4 | are presumed as far away from Iran to be the language of the whole country |
| 1:28.2 | and the culture of the whole country. |
| 1:30.1 | Your book makes it very quickly obvious that that is not the case, |
| 1:35.0 | that the Persian-ness is perhaps 50%, but the languages are as united nations as we could ask. |
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