Iran and the Nuclear Question: History and Evolutionary Trajectory

ISBN-13: 9780367878658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Mohammad Homayounvash

Opis

Spanning over more than five decades since inception, Iran’s nuclear programme is the most protracted civilian nuclear program in the world and one of the most politicized projects in Iran’s history.

Iran and the Nuclear Question offers a historiographical portrait of Iran’s early nuclear program. Using

Spis treści

Preface 1. Atoms for Peace: Nuclear Infancy 2. From Bahgdad Pact to Cento 3.The National Security Monarch 4. Nuclear Program Muddles Through 5. Prestige, Supremacy and Deterrence 6. Birth of AEOI 7. India’s Peaceful Nuclear Explosion 8. Conventional Bribery 9. Shah’s Foot-in-Mouth Moment 10. Standoff with Washington 11. Gravitation Towards Europe 12. London Club 13. Proliferation Red Flags 14. Indian Factor 15. Ford's Quest for Breakthrough 16. Nuclear-Allergic Carter 17. The Persepolis Conference and its Aftermath 18. The Devil in Details 19. Strategic Hedging 20. Israel Factor 21. Enterprise Under Fire: Nuclear Retrenchment 22. Nuclear Dormancy 23. Designation as Intransigent Proliferator Conclusion

O autorze

Mohammad Homayounvash has a Ph.D in International Relations and is currently Research Associate at the Middle East Studies Center at Florida International University, America