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"The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015. The author evaluates in what ways the JCPOA, in conjunction with the dramatic changes taking shape in the international order, have affected Iran's foreign policy. Known as Normalizers, the moderate leadership under President Hassan Rouhani had planned to normalize Iran's foreign relations by curtailing terrorism and reintegrate Iran into the community of nations. Their hardline opponents, the Principalists, rejected the JCPOA as a tool of subjection to the West and insisted on exporting the Islamist revolution, a source of much destabilization and terror in the region and beyond. The project also analyzes the struggle between Normalizers and their hardline opponents with regards to global and regional issues and Iran's foreign policy towards global powers including the U.S., Russia, EU, and regional countries including Iraq, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey." (Publisher's description)

Contents -- List of Symbols and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Proliferation, Sanctions, and Rollback: A Multidisciplinary Approach -- The Puzzle of Iran's Proliferation: Optimists versus Pessimists -- Rolling Back Iran's Nuclear Program? Sanction Advocates versus Sanction Skeptics -- Iran as a Non-Unitary Actor: The Negotiated Political Order -- Methodology and Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: The Islamic Revolution and the Bomb: Quran Meets Realism -- The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic: The High Cost of Exporting the Revolution -- The Quranic Way of War: Is There Room for Nuclear Weapons? -- Bushehr and Beyond: Building a Case for Nuclear Weapons -- References -- Chapter 3: Rafsanjani's Nuclear Takeoff: Taking Advantage of the Weak Non-Proliferation Regime -- Hiding in Plain Site: The Legitimate Infrastructure of an Illicit Program -- Building Its Own Scientific Cadre: Iran as a Nuclear Science Beacon to the World? -- The Pakistani Connection: Making the Dream of a Muslim Bomb a Doable Reality? -- Shopping in the Abdul Qadeer Khan Nuclear Bazaar: The Centrifuge Blueprint Purchase -- Beyond the "Khan Bazaar": Making Pakistani Proliferation Official? -- The North Korean Connection: Shopping for Missiles and More -- Evading the Non-proliferation Regime: Complexity and Dissimulation -- References -- Chapter 4: Khatami's Dialogue among Civilizations and the Nuclear "Disappearance Act" -- Khatami's Vision of Foreign Policy: The Meaning of the Dialogue among Civilizations -- On Khatami's Watch: Speeding Up the Nuclear Project -- The MEK's Disclosure and Its Aftermath: Adjusting Tactics without Changing Strategy -- Khatami: Out of the Loop or Part of the Deception Project? -- Slow-Playing the West While Developing the Nuclear Project -- References -- Chapter 5: Ahmadinejad's Principalist Doctrine: Sovereign Rights to a Nuclear Arsenal

1. Exporting the Revolution and Building Hegemony -- 2. Hezbollah in Lebanon: Creating the Model Proxy -- 3. Deploying Proxies against the "Zionist Enemy" and Undermining the Oslo Peace Process -- 4. Al-Qaeda: Islamist Ecumenism Against the United States and the West -- 5. From the Bader Brigade to the Popular Mobilization Forces: Fighting the Americans while Turning Iraq into a New Lebanon -- 6. Rescuing the Assad Regime and Turning Syria into a Client State -- 7. Proxies in the Gulf and Beyond: Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Principalities, and Yemen -- 8. Conclusions: The Success of the Proxy Strategy and its Limits.

This book analyzes the process of evaluating Iran's nuclear project and efforts to roll it back, resulting in the 2015 nuclear agreement. To highlight the technological problems and the politicization involved in the process, this study uses real-time comparison of developments in Iran and the perception of Israel in the United States

"This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights into the impact of three prominent actors, namely ISIS, YPG and Shia Militias. With its distinctive detailed and multi-faceted analyses, it offers new findings on the changing contours of sovereignty, geopolitics and ideology, particularly after the Arab Uprisings. Overall this volume contributes to the study of violent geopolitics, critical security studies and international relations particularly by exploring the ideologies and strategies of the new non state armed actors." (Publisher's description)