Mass Protests in Iran : : From Resistance to Overthrow / / Masoud Kazemzadeh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Kazemzadeh, Masoud,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 255 p.)

Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, consequences, and outcomes. The author argues that the regime and its support base of fundamentalist groups constitute a minority in Iran and lack legitimacy, and thus the regime uses repression and violence to secure its rule. The result is a pre-revolutionary situation and a shifting political landscape of overthrows, constant mass protests and mass repression. Kazemzadeh’s analysis highlights the factors that would assist the fundamentalist regime in succeeding in suppressing these protests, and the factors that would assist the Iranian people in defeating the fundamentalist regime.Written in an accessible style, this timely book offers a much-needed contribution to the literature on Iranian politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars, as well as policy makers, interested in Middle Eastern studies, social movements, protest movements, political science and sociology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- About the Author -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Green Movement, 2009– 2010 -- Chapter 3 Mass Protests, December 2017 –January 2018 -- Chapter 4 The Political Situation in 2022 -- Chapter 5 Woman, Life, Freedom, the 2022 –2023 Mass Protests -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Regime Survival or Regime Collapse -- Bibliography -- Index