Capitalism in Contemporary Iran - Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics

This book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and the changes in class and state formation emanating from it in Iran during the global neoliberal era. It demonstrates how there are inner connections between the nature of contemporary development in Iran, the form of the state, the ongoing sociopolitical transformations in society and the geopolitical tensions with the West. Simultaneously, it highlights that these issues should be explored in terms of their internal relations to the motions and tendencies of neoliberal global capitalism and resulting geopolitics. Accordingly, the book demonstrates that Iranian neoliberalisation has brought about new contested class dynamics that have fundamentally reconstructed the Iranian ruling class, aggressively shaped and reshaped the working class and the poor, and drastically impacted the state form and its foreign policy.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kayhan Valadbaygi
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.02.2024
• EAN: 9781526161789
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6178-9
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Progress in Political Economy; Progress in Political Iran
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Iran, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Political Economy