Brenda Shaffer is research director at the Caspian Studies Program at Harvard University. She is the author of Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity (MIT Press). She can be reached by email at Brenda_Shaffer@harvard.edu.

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