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Brenda Shaffer is an internationally-recognized scholar, analyst and advisor. Her expertise comes from a combination of real-world experience and extensive academic research. Shaffer provides governments and businesses with analysis of foreign policy and energy developments, including on the geopolitical influence of oil prices, energy trends and economic and political matters in the Caucasus and Caspian region. Read More →
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A controversial but needed discussion of ethnicity inside Iran. When the people of the Iranian plateau — the Persians — and Persian expatriates bristle so easily at the discussion of non-Persian ethnic pride in Iran, outsiders should take note. They are sensitive for a reason: historic Iran was an empire before Reza Shah decided to make it a nation state. We still don’t know how it’s all going to shake out.
— Reuel Marc Gerecht,
FDD (review of "Iran is More than Persia")
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