POWER AND SOVEREIGNTY FOR IRANIAN ELITES OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 59 - 67, 01.03.2017

Taher Khadıv Ehsan Shahghasemı

Abstract

Before Iran-Russia wars of early 19th century, Iranians had no clear understanding of the concept of “power” and its elements. By then, Iranians, albeit in a limited sense, for the first time became familiar with the issue of modernity. This familiarity was due to wars with Russia which was at that time an emerging colonial power. As a result of this war, some very limited number of Iranian elites collected that the concept of “power” was changing and old conceptualizations which took the emperor as the basis of power were no longer in place. Defeats in war against Russia problematized the concept of power, and studying the rise and fall of powers became an issue worthy of consideration. Moreover, replacements in borderlines entailed a kind of “border consciousness” among Iranian elites and guided them to understand the modern concept of sovereignty for the first time. The issue of sovereignty paved the way for posing the issue of law which was not something important in the empire model of governance in Iran

Keywords

Power, Modernity, Iran-Russia Wars, Sovereignty

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