Summary Nations around the world are uncertain and anxious about Iran s intentions in the Middle East and the wider global arena. Its current president,…
Country or Region: Iran
Summary Religion, nationalism, ethnicity, economics, and geopolitics all are important in explaining Iran’s goals and tactics in its relationship with the outside world, as are…
Abstract This article argues that political/security arrangements in the Persian Gulf based on balance of power are incapable of preserving security or stability. Balance of…
Abstract The article discusses the foreign policy of the government of Iran, as of January 2010. It focuses on the antagonistic relationship between Iran and…
Summary The Persian Gulf, important because of its vast energy resources, emerged into the limelight of geopolitics at the time of the British Labour government’s…
Summary At a time when international terrorism is the focal point of our concerns, a far more pressing threat has arisen to the balance of…
Summary Bringing together a broad range of important articles from Foreign Affairs and ForeignAffairs.com, Iran and the Bomb tells the story of the Islamic Republic…
Summary The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with Iran now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military…
Summary In 2013 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event,…
Summary The first detailed Iranian account of the diplomatic struggle between Iran and the international community, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir opens in 2002, as news…
Summary This book examines the strategic implications of Iran’s nuclear programme, providing an inventory of the negotiations and a discussion of possible solutions to this…
Summary This book investigates what is driving Iran’s nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation. Iran’s…
Summary This book examines the dynamics of relations and the substance of the negotiations between the international community and Iran over the latter’s nuclear programme.…
Summary Former U.N. Ambassador Dore Gold shows why engaging Iran through diplomacy is not only futile but also could be deadly. In the West, liberal…
Abstract This article argues that as long as Iran’s post-election crisis remains unresolved, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s resort to rhetoric centered on treating the US &…
