Navigating Iran [electronic resource] : From Carter to Obama /
Seliktar, O.author.
This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of interest to the United States: nuclear proliferation, revolutionary export and support for international terrorism, efforts to undermine the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and violations of human rights. It compares developments in Iran to their perception in Washington, providing the clearest picture available yet of the discrepancies between the complex and elusive Iranian reality and its understanding in the United States.
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Cover; Navigating Iran From Carter to Obama; Contents; INTRODUCTION: The Theory and Practice of Predicting Political Change; CHAPTER 1: The Iran Policy of the Carter Administration: Triggering a Revolution and Reaping a Whirlwind; The Unlikely Crusader: Jimmy Carter and the Mainstreaming of New Internationalism; Road Testing New Internationalism: Shaping the Administration's Iran Policy; The Gathering Storm: Iran's Opposition Takes Measure of New Internationalism; The Cyclical Riots: The View from Tehran and Washington
In the Eye of the Storm-the Mass Protest: The View from Tehran and WashingtonThe General Strikes: The View from Tehran; The Endgame: The View from Tehran and Washington; CHAPTER 2: The Carter Administration and the Uncharted Territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran; The Islamic Republic of Iran: The Emergence of the Negotiated Political Order; Making Sense of a Revolutionary Aftermath: Washington's Guide for the Perplexed; The Unwelcome Visitor: The Politics and Intelligence of the Shah's Admission to the United States
The Negotiated Political Order and the American Hostages: Negotiations by Other Means?The Presidential Campaign: Hostage to the Hostages; The Search for a New "Second Pillar" and the Outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War; October Negotiations or "October Surprise"? The Hostage End Game in Tehran and Washington; CHAPTER 3: The Reagan Administration's Balancing Act: Confusion in Washington and Tehran; The Politics of Iran's Parallel Institutions and Factionalism in the Early 1980s; Revolutionary Exporters: Lebanon and Beyond; Balancing the Gulf: The Administration's Policy toward Iran and Iraq
Irangate: Smoke and Mirrors in WashingtonIrangate: Smoke and Mirrors in Jerusalem; Irangate: Smoke and Mirrors in Tehran; The Imam's Last Stand: Revolution Forever?; CHAPTER 4: The Bush Administration: To Contain or Not to Contain; The Second Republic: Institutionalizing the Negotiated Political Order; Squaring the Circle: Normalizing Iran's Relations with the World and Exporting Terror; Iran and Islamist Terrorism: Blind Spots in Washington; From Nuclear Energy to Nuclear Power: The Quest for the Second "Islamic Bomb"
American Intelligence and Iran's Proliferation Challenge: The Theory and Practice of the NPT RegimeThe Bush Administration Dilemma: To Contain or Not to Contain; CHAPTER 5: The Clinton Administration: Containing Iran; The Second Republic: A Moderating Pragmatist?; Terror as "Violent" Diplomacy: Negotiations by Other Means; Shadowboxing: The Clinton "Reformation" and the Politics of Tackling Iran's Terror Network; The Washington Guessing Game: Iran Nuclear Estimate; The Iran Estimate: The Guessing Game; The Policy and Politics of Containing Iran
CHAPTER 6: The Clinton Administration and Khatami's Iran: A New Era in Relations?
Includes bibliographical references (p.[181]-216) and index.
This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of interest to the United States: nuclear proliferation, revolutionary export and support for international terrorism, efforts to undermine the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and violations of human rights. It compares developments in Iran to their perception in Washington, providing the clearest picture available yet of the discrepancies between the complex and elusive Iranian reality and its understanding in the United States.
International relations.
Europe—Politics and government.
Asia—Politics and government.
Political science.
Diplomacy.
International Relations.
European Politics.
Asian Politics.
Political Science.
Diplomacy.