[This volume] covers political, ethnic, and demographic issues, and predicts economic trajectories of growth. Clear and to-the-point, the book finishes with a set of policy recommendations that include discouraging ethnic groups from violently opposing the regime and encouraging the development of markets as the buying power of the electorate translates into less control by the regime. It also recommends that the US not oppose Iran's accession to the WTO. Libraries and bookstores can't go wrong with [this] slender volume. [It is] indispensable for historians, journalists, academics, and policy makers. Foreword Magazine, Editor's Notes, August 2008