Iran's Nuclear Program

A Study in Proliferation and Rollback

Farhad Rezaei

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319441191
• eBook ISBN: 9783319441207
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book presents the first full and systematic account of Iran's nuclear program from 1979 to 2015. Throughout this time, foreign policy makers, intelligence experts, and scholars on the subject have repeatedly failed to understand the internal dynamics behind Iran's nuclear project and have underestimated the depth of the regime's commitment to develop nuclear weapons. The author presents an account of little-understood episodes in the history of the nuclear project, including an analysis of the decision making process of the "nuclear sanctum." A full account is given of the organizations that ran the project and a listing of the suppliers that made the project possible. Finally, the book offers a detailed analysis of the international sanctions placed on Iran, including the induced anomie and legitimacy crisis which expedited the decision to rollback.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Symbols and Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Proliferation, Sanctions, and Rollback: A Multidisciplinary Approach
• Chapter 2: The Islamic Revolution and the Bomb: Quran Meets Realism
• Chapter 3: Rafsanjani’s Nuclear Takeoff: Taking Advantage of the Weak Non-Proliferation Regime
• Chapter 4: Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilizations and the Nuclear “Disappearance Act”
• Chapter 5: Ahmadinejad’s Principalist Doctrine: Sovereign Rights to a Nuclear Arsenal
• Chapter 6: International Sanctions: The High Cost of Proliferation in a Neopatrimonial Regime
• Chapter 7: The Rouhani Presidency: The Road to Rollback
• Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections on Iran’s Proliferation and Rollback
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Index