Title: Iran and Nuclear Weapons
Subtitle: Protracted Conflict and Proliferation (Routledge Global Security Studies)
Description: "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. It underscores the importance of protracted conflicts in proliferation decisions, and underpinning this is the assumption that non-proliferation may be achieved through the termination of intractable conflicts. The aims of this work are to demonstrate that a state's decision to acquire nuclear weapons depends largely on its engagement in protracted conflicts, which shows not only that the presence of nuclear rivals intensifies the nuclear ambition, but also that non-nuclear status of rival states can promote non-proliferation incentives in conflicting states inclined to proliferate."--Jacket.
Subjects: Foreign relations, Nuclear arms control, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear nonproliferation, Case studies, Iran, politics and government, Middle east, military policy, HISTORY, Military, Nuclear Warfare, Diplomatic relations, United states, foreign relations, iran, Iran, foreign relations
Places: Iran, United States