Alnasseri, SabahNakhaei, Nima2021-03-082021-03-082020-122021-03-08http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38226This dissertation deals with the state and forms of development in post-revolutionary Iran, through a historical materialist perspective, in particular Nicos Poulantzas relational theory of the state. Analysing the formation and various restructurings of the post-revolutionary state through examining the modifications in the space of economic accumulation as well as political and ideological domination, this study emphasises on the discontinuities in the post- revolutionary period. For this purpose, the post-revolutionary state is demarcated from the monarchical one by explicating the emergence of the sub-imperialist form of development since the White Revolution, its crisis and dissolution subsequent to the 1979 revolution. Subsequently, this dissertation identifies and examines the unfolding of the late national bourgeoisie form of development and its protracted crisis followed by the neo-national bourgeois form of development. Through this historical periodization, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of Irans assertive embedment in the region, in the years following the 2003 occupation of Iraq.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Middle Eastern studiesElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2021-03-08ImperialismSub-imperialismDevelopmentState theoryPolitical economyNicos PoulantzasNeoliberalismNeoliberal world orderCrisis of neoliberal world orderPolitical economy of IranState in post-revolutionary IranPersian nationalismPpan-Islamism1979 revolutionIslamic revolutionNational bourgeoisieNeo-national bourgeoisie