Speaker: Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews
Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre
Launching his latest book, 'The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran', Ali Ansari explores the idea of nationalism in the creation of modern Iran, considering the broader developments in national ideologies that took place following the emergence of the European Enlightenment and showing how these ideas were adopted by a non-European state. Recorded on 18 March 2013.
