Summary Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East,…
Country or Region: Iran
From the publisher: Asia has emerged as the global center for energy demand growth and now accounts for more than two-thirds of the worldwide market for…
Continue reading Bradshaw, Michael , Mikkal E. Herberg, Amy Myers Jaffe, Damien Ma, and Nikos Tsafos
Summary Daniel Byman’s hard-hitting and articulate book is the first to study countries that support terrorist groups. Focusing primarily on sponsors from the Middle East…
Summary The Preventive Defense Project conducted the latest in its series of Washington WMD Workshops entitled “Iran Plan B Design” on May 22, 2006. The…
Abstract A cursory examination of the post-Cold War record shows significant successes in sustaining nonproliferation. Nevertheless, major challenges do exist, especially in the inability of…
Summary While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are…
Summary Five Central Asian states emerged out of the Soviet Union’s Central Asian republics in 1991. Although U.S. policymakers presumed that Iran would inevitably sweep…
Summary Edited by Robin Wright, this compendium provides top-level briefings by 50 seasoned experts on Iran (both Iranian and Western authors) from some twenty foreign…
Summary Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration’s emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit…
Summary An eye-opening argument for a new approach to Iran, from two of America’s most informed and influential Middle East experts Less than a decade…
Continue reading Leverett, Flynt Lawrence, and Hillary Mann Leverett.
Summary This new academic and analytical book tackles the strategy of Iran’s security since the new millennium, when their national security policy was reviewed to…
Summary The strategic and economic characteristics of the Persian Gulf have made it of critical importance to all the states bordering its coastline, as well…
Summary Iran’s nuclear program is one of the most pressing foreign policy issues for the United States. An Iranian nuclear arsenal could further destabilize an…
Summary The breakup of the USSR created a Central Asian security complex or sphere of influence consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Since…
Abstract A wide range of disputes among the Persian Gulf littoral states exercerbated by the intervention of the extra-regional powers have deprived the regional states…
