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DESCRIPTION:The Allied occupation of Iran (1941–1946) imposed one of the 
 twentieth century’s most abrupt and total border closures\, severing pre
 -war global supply chains for essential commodities and turning a sovereig
 n transit state into a wartime logistical corridor. Rather than offsetting
  this enforced external disconnection through institutional openness or ma
 rket flexibility\, Iranian governments deliberately layered a second\, int
 ernal closure: sweeping\, non-transparent state monopolies over sugar\, te
 a\, grain\, and other staples\, coupled with opaque rationing. Archival pr
 ice series document the result: sugar prices rose 2\,300 %\, tea 2\,666 %\
 , and artificial famines erupted in a country untouched by combat.\nThis d
 ouble closure—external borders sealed by foreign armies\, internal econo
 mic borders sealed by domestic policy—lies at the heart of the conferenc
 e theme “Closed Borders and Global Connections” and prompts the centra
 l research question:\nHow does the deliberate imposition of a closed domes
 tic economy through unaccountable state monopolies\, when physical borders
  are already forcibly closed\, transform externally induced scarcity into 
 accelerated societal collapse?\nDrawing on five years of multi-archival re
 search (Iranian National Archives\, British and U.S. diplomatic records\, 
 quantitative price and revenue datasets)\, this paper advances the “Clos
 ed Borders–Closed Economy Paradox”: the simultaneous closure of both f
 rontier types institutionalises rent-seeking\, erodes public trust\, and c
 onverts manageable supply shocks into self-reinforcing crises of governanc
 e and subsistence. The Iranian case provides a historically grounded\, the
 oretically generalisable framework for understanding resilience and failur
 e in sanctioned\, blockaded\, or pandemic-isolated economies across the tw
 entieth and twenty-first centuries.
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LOCATION:Room 302 (Seats 48)
SUMMARY:Closed Borders\, Closed Economies: The Paradox of State Monopoly an
 d Wartime Shortages in Occupied Iran\, 1941–1946 - Marziye Mansoury
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/WLJS99/
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