Dr Evaleila Pesaran, PhD (SOAS), is a Fellow and Senior College Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Her research explores the politics of domination and resistance in modern Iran, with a particular focus on ideas of economic independence, the theory and practice of anti-imperialism, and relations between state and society. She is the author of Iran’s Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era (London, 2011) as well as publications in Iranian Studies and the Review of International Studies.