Valadbaygi Capitalism in contemporary Iran

Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6179-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Political Economy

The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the form of the state; and foreign policy of the country.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valadbaygi, Kayhan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Framing Iran: A historical materialist approach
2 Modern Iran from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana: The emergence and consolidation of capitalism
3 1979 revolution and war with Iraq: The expansion of state capitalism
4 Neoliberalisation and the ruling class reconfiguration (1989–2013)
5 Neoliberalisation and the institutional and ideological reconstitution of the state
6 Class struggles in neoliberal Iran: From workers' resistance in the 1990s to the post-2017 uprisings
7 Neoliberalism and geopolitics: The Iranian nuclear programme, international sanctions and regional policy
8 Conclusion: Future paths under the crisis of neoliberalism, the changing global order and revolts from below

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kayhan Valadbaygi is a Lecturer in International Relations of the Middle East at Leiden University