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Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran [electronic resource]
Auflage
1st ed. 2013
Ort / Verlag
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
""Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Methodology""; ""Outline of the Chapters""; ""Chapter 1: Ethnic Conflict: Theories and Concepts""; ""Societal Security""; ""Relative Deprivation Theory""; ""Terms and Concepts""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2: Continuity and Change: The tradition of Security Discourse in Iran""; ""Introduction""; ""Expansionism and the Concept of Umma""; ""The Iran-Iraq War: Islamism or Nationalism?""; ""Rafsanjani, Reconstructionism, and Pragmatism""; ""Khatami, Reforms, Failure, and Success""
""Iran in the Aftermath of the Reformists""""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3: Iran�s National Identity problem""; ""Introduction""; ""Reconstruction of Iran�s National Identity""; ""The Dichotomy of Iranianness and Islamicness""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4: Ethnic Conflict in Iran: Continuity and Change""; ""Introduction""; ""Ethnic Conflicts in Iran""; ""Ethnic Groups""; ""External Factors, Ethnicity, and Foreign Policy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5: Relative Deprivation Theory and Political Violence in Iran""; ""Introduction""; ""The Islamic Republic: The Struggle for Legitimacy and Power""
""Discontent among Ethnic Minorities""""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 6: Ethnic Minorities in Iran: The View from the Ground""; ""Introduction""; ""Relative Deprivation and Societal Insecurity""; ""Discriminative State Policies""; ""Education, Modernization, and Ethnic Identity""; ""Ethnosectarian Minorities""; ""National Identity Crisis""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7: Separatism and the State�s Mechanism of Control""; ""Introduction""; ""Iranian Security State""; ""Ethnic Separatism""; ""Foreign Actors and Ethnic Groups ""; ""Regional and Historical Impacts on Iran�s Security Question""
While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran.