Description: A study of ethnic identity among Azerbaijanis in Iran and in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.
Brief description: Brenda Shaffer is Research Director of the Caspian Studies Program at Harvard University. She is the author of Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity (MIT Press, 2002).
Review Quotes: "A very comprehensive and interesting intellectual endeavor that will interest specialists on identity, the Middle East, and post-Soviet studies, as well as the citizens of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan."--Hamlet Isaxanli, President and Founder of Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan