Kamran Matin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Sussex University, UK, where he teaches international history, international theory, and Middle East politics. His current research focuses on international historical sociology of modern (nation-)state formation and nationalism and limits of post-/de-colonial theory. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013) and numerous articles and op-eds on Kurdish and Iranian politics, and co-editors of Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016), and of Palgrave’s Minorities in West Asia and North Africa (MWANA) series. He is also the director of Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT).