This book investigates what's using Iran's nuclear guns programme in a less-hostile neighborhood surroundings, utilizing a thought of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.

Iran’s nuclear guns application has alarmed the foreign group because the Nineties, yet has come to the leading edge of foreign protection matters seeing that 2000. This e-book argues that Iran’s hostility with the USA is still the main causal issue for its proliferation actions. With the united states management pursuing competitive overseas guidelines in the direction of Iran on the grounds that 2000, the latter’s defense chance intensified. A society that's break up on many vital household matters remained united at the factor of nuclear guns acquisition after the united states conflict in Iraq. hence, Iran turned decided in its force to procure nuclear guns and boldly introduced its choice to complement uranium, leaving the USA in doubtless approximately its nuclear status.

This publication underscores the significance of protracted conflicts in proliferation judgements, and underpinning this can be the belief that non-proliferation can be completed during the termination of intractable conflicts. The goals of this paintings are to illustrate state’s selection to obtain nuclear guns relies mostly on its engagement in protracted conflicts, which indicates not just that the presence of nuclear opponents intensifies the nuclear ambition, but in addition that non-nuclear prestige of rival states can advertise non-proliferation incentives in conflicting states susceptible to proliferate.

This learn may be of significant curiosity to scholars of Iran, center japanese politics, nuclear proliferation and diplomacy theory.

Saira Khan is a learn affiliate within the McGill-University of Montreal Joint examine staff in foreign protection (REGIS).