Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis

✍ Scribed by Riccardo Alcaro

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the European involvement in managing the nuclear dispute with Iran, shedding new light on EU foreign policy-making. The author focuses on the peculiar format through which the EU managed Iran’s nuclear issue: a ‘lead group’ consisting of France, Germany and the UK and the High Representative for EU foreign policy (E3/EU). The experience of the E3/EU lends credibility to the claim that lead groups give EU foreign policy direction and substance. The E3/EU set up a negotiating framework that worked as a de-escalating tool, a catalyst for Security Council unity and a forum for crisis management. They inflicted pain on Iran by adopting a comprehensive sanctions regime, but did so only having secured US commitment to a diplomatic solution. Once the deal was reached, they defended it vigorously. The E3/EU may have been supporting actors, but their achievements were real.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The E3/EU Iran Group (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 1-20
Front Matter ....Pages 21-21
The Theory: Lead Groups and EU Foreign Policy-Making (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 23-57
The History: The 2003–16 Iran Nuclear Crisis (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 59-90
Front Matter ....Pages 91-91
The Bargain: How the E3/EU Came About (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 93-115
The Discourse: Why the E3/EU Endured (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 117-140
Front Matter ....Pages 141-142
The Premise: The Underneath Continuity in the E3/EU’s Iran Policy (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 143-155
The Action/1: E3 Leadership and EU Ownership (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 157-180
The Action/2: The E3/EU and the United States (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 181-202
The Outcome: The E3/EU as Identity Shapers (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 203-223
Conclusion: The E3/EU and EU Foreign Policy (Riccardo Alcaro)....Pages 225-242
Back Matter ....Pages 243-293

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; European Union Politics; Foreign Policy; International Security Studies

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