Introduction Last week’s nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran is the most transformative development in relations between the two nations in decades. But…
Country or Region: Iran
Introduction The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the controversial international agreement to restrict Iran’s nuclear program, was implemented on January 16, 2016. After the International Atomic…
Abstract Is the South Asian region (or Khurasan according to Islamic exegesis) emerging as the battlefield of a decisive clash of ideologies? Khurasan, originally an…
Abstract With mounting concern over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the recent convening of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, nuclear proliferation has once…
Abstract In this study, changes in natural gas reserve/production ratio (R/P) of the four countries having the highest natural gas reserves (Russia, Iran, Qatar, Turkmenistan),…
Abstract President Barack Obama has inherited an unenviable legacy in relation to Iran. Relations between Iran and the United States have suffered blow after blow…
Abstract In the past, terrorists have tended to eschew acts of extreme violence for fear of alienating those whom they wish to persuade and attract…
Abstract This article investigates the nuclear postures available to Israel in the wake of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the…
Publication Year: 2016 Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Law: From Confrontation to Accord Summary This book provides an international legal analysis of the most important questions…
Abstract Hydrocarbon riches have lifted the states of the Persian-Arabian Gulf out of poverty, but they also attract unwanted attention and external intervention. This essay…
Abstract The objective of this study is to understand the shift in the nuclear policy of the Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). As a military…
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Abstract The next U.S. president confronts a tough decision on whether and how to play out the unfinished hand that she or he will inherit…
Abstract This article examines the role of corporate identity in Iran’s foreign policy making. Drawing on interviews with Iranian stakeholders and an analysis of Iran’s…
Abstract The nuclear arms control regime—centered on the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)—faces five challenges: failure of nuclear disarmament by the five NPT-licit nuclear powers…
Abstract This essay identifies a difference of opinion over the role of nuclear weapons as an absolute deterrent as the basis for the theoretical disagreement…
