Routledge Recasting Iranian Modernity - International Relations & Social Change

This Routledge academic text offers a critical reassessment of Iran's modern history through the lens of uneven and combined development theory. The book challenges Eurocentric perspectives by centering international relations as fundamental to understanding social transformation and historical change. By integrating global dynamics into social theory, the author demonstrates how Iran's revolutionary experience reflects broader patterns of combined development that resist Western interpretive frameworks. The work addresses the theoretical gap in existing scholarship by positioning the international dimension as intrinsic to historical processes rather than peripheral. Scholars of Middle Eastern studies, international relations, and modern history will find this analysis essential for understanding how nations experience modernity beyond conventional Western models.