Nuclear Proliferation

Review – Nuclear Energy and Global Governance

Alvin Almendrala Camba • Sep 4 2012 • Features

Trevor Findlay’s Nuclear Energy and Global Governance is a very well-researched manuscript that deals with the drivers and the constraints of a possible global nuclear energy revival.

Israel’s Bomb: Or, Finance as the Undoing of Foreign Policy

NAJ Taylor • Aug 14 2012 • Articles

Countries’ sovereign wealth funds often invest in companies that run counter to their foreign policy. We may never definitively know who is financing the Israeli bomb.

Israel and the United States: Facing Dramatic Decisions

Zaki Shalom • Aug 1 2012 • Articles

The Obama administration must understand that an Israeli military operation against Iran is liable to drag the United States into the battlefield against its will.

U.S. Sanctions and the Nuclear Endgame in Iran

Kelsey Davenport • Jul 24 2012 • Articles

The new sanctions on Iran are having a greater impact than prior efforts. To halt Iran’s enrichment, the U.S. and the P5+1 must now offer sanctions relief in return for nuclear concessions.

Iran’s Response to Sanctions

Zachary Keck • Jul 10 2012 • Articles

Iran’s response to U.S. and EU sanctions demonstrates its increasing desperation, but the West lacks a plan for translating its current advantage into Iranian concessions on its nuclear program.

Perceptions of the Other: Iran’s National Identity and Nuclear Policy

Gianna Gayle Amul • Jun 14 2012 • Articles

Iranian leaders’ different national identity conceptions provide insights into Tehran’s motivations for possibly acquiring a nuclear weapon, as well as the fallacy of Washington’s current approach.

US-Indian Relations: Permanent Interests Not Permanent Friends

Lawrence Korb and Alex Rothman • Jun 14 2012 • Articles

It is important that the United States do a better job of defending its own interests in its negotiations with India. Nevertheless, there are areas of common strategic concern where we can work with the Indian government to the benefit of both nations.

Will Sanctions Change Iran’s Nuclear Calculus?

Javad Heydarian • Jun 11 2012 • Articles

Iran is currently under one of the most comprehensive and punitive set of sanctions ever implemented in history. With the European Union’s oil embargo and new U.S. sanctions set to take effect in coming days, Tehran will be put under tremendous economic pressure.

Sam Harris’ Liberal Masquerade

Alasdair McKay • May 22 2012 • Articles

Harris’ politics represent radical authoritarianism and nativism masquerading as progressive liberalism, glossed by a veneer of academic respectability.

To Strike or Not to Strike: What is the Endgame in Iran?

Mira Rapp-Hooper • Mar 12 2012 • Articles

Amid all the debate over whether to attack Iran, the most important question to ask is whether this policy will keep Iran non-nuclear indefinitely?

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