A History of Modern Iran — Why Oil Wealth Produced Revolutionary Instability
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Author: Ervand Abrahamian
This episode explores A History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian as a systems-level analysis of how oil wealth, centralized state power, and authoritarian modernization influenced political legitimacy, social stability, and revolutionary outcomes in Iran.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or surface-level ideological conflict, the episode examines why rentier states often generate instability beneath apparent modernization — and how those pressures…
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