The United States and Iran

by Roshandel, Jalil; Cook, Alethia H.

• ISBN13: 9780230618114
• ISBN10: 0230618111
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Relations between Iran and the US have been strained for over 30 years.#xA0; The US frequently seems either unwilling or unable to develop policies that may alleviate the problems.#xA0; Cook and Roshandel provide unbiased discussions of key issues such as:#xA0; the historical relations between the US and Iran; modern Iranian Government; the impacts the US and Iran have on Middle East security; Iranian support for organizations the US calls terrorists; and the Iranian nuclear program.#xA0; The authors then identify a wide range of possible US policy solutions and select the one(s) that offers the best chance to improve relations.

Author Biography

Alethia H. Cook is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Assistant Director of the Security Studies Program at East Carolina University.  She holds a PhD in Public Policy from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.  She has published articles and participated in studies for government agencies on security-related topics including nuclear and radiological terrorism, pandemic disease, and emergency response to terrorism. 

Jalil Roshandel is Associate Professor and Director of Security Studies program at Political Science Department, East Carolina University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science, at the Universitè des Science Sociales, Toulouse I, France, and was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran-Iran. His most recent book “Jihad and International Security (Co-authored by Sharon Chadha), was published by Palgrave in 2006. He has extensively published papers and articles about Iranian nuclear program and other major international security subjects.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
List of Acronyms	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Iran/U.S. Political History	p. 15
Modern Iranian Politics	p. 41
Iran, the United States, and Middle East Stability	p. 65
Iran: State Sponsor of Terror?	p. 99
Iran and Nuclear Power (or Weapons?)	p. 117
Toward a More Comprehensive U.S. Foreign Policy for Iran	p. 145
Notes	p. 163
Glossary	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 203
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