The ratio of ethnic politics and national integration in the era of Pahlavi and the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Saeminia, Gholamhosein; Akbarzadeh, Feredoun; Navididnia, Farzad; Jalalpoor, Shiva

doi:10.30465/scs.2024.50075.2916

The ratio of ethnic politics and national integration in the era of Pahlavi and the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Authors

gholamhosein saeminia ¹

feredoun akbarzadeh ²

farzad navididnia ³

Shiva jalalpoor ⁴

¹ دانشجوی دکتری، گروه علوم سیاسی، واحد اهواز، دانشگاه آاد اسلامی، اهواز، ایران

² Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Andimshek Branch, Islamic Azad University, Andimshek, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz, Iran

10.30465/scs.2024.50075.2916

Abstract

Ethnic diversity has always been one of the most important issues of how to manage this ethnic and religious diversity. For this reason, the mentality of the policy maker has been focused on the challenge that the management of diversity and ethnic conflicts should be towards the assimilation and dissolution of the ethnic identity in the national identity, or the ethnic identity should be placed parallel to the national identity. In this regard, the present article focuses on ethnic policy-making in contemporary Iran by the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic governments, and by applying the descriptive and analytical method, seeks to analyze the relationship between the government's ethnic policy and national integration. For this reason, the main question of the article It is explained as follows: What was the relationship between ethnic politics during the Pahlavi era (first and second) and the Islamic Republic of Iran with national integration? In response to this question and in the form of the article's hypothesis, it should be said that Pahlavi's ethnic policy based on the approach of ethnic identification has weakened national integration, but on the opposite point, the Islamic Republic's ethnic policy with a pluralist approach has strengthened national integration.

Keywords

Ethnic politics

assimilation

pluralism

national integration

Pahlavi

Islamic Republic of Iran

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