A01=Kayhan Valadbaygi
Author_Kayhan Valadbaygi
Category=JPS
Category=KCP
class and state formation
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historical materialism
internationalisation of capital
Iran sanctions
Iranian capitalism
Iranian nuclear programme
Iranian working class and poor
Islamic Republic of Iran
neoliberalism
philosophy of internal relations
Product details
- ISBN 9781526195579
- Weight: 365g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kayhan Valadbaygi is a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam
