This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons
programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of
protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation. Iran's nuclear
weapons program has alarmed the international community since the
1990s, but has come to the forefront of international security
concerns since 2000. This book argues that Iran's hostility with
the United States remains the major causal factor for its
proliferation activities. With the US administration pursuing
aggressive foreign policies towards Iran since 2000, the latter's
security threat intensified. A society that is split on many
important domestic issues remained united on the issue of nuclear
weapons acquisition after the US war in Iraq. Consequently, Iran
became determined in its drive to acquire nuclear weapons and
boldly announced its decision to enrich uranium, leaving the US in
no doubt about its nuclear status. This book underscores the
importance of protracted conflicts in proliferation decisions, and
underpinning this is the assumption that non-proliferation may be
achieved through the termination of intractable conflicts. The aims
of this work are to demonstrate that a state's decision to acquire
nuclear weapons depends largely on its engagement in protracted
conflicts, which shows not only that the presence of nuclear rivals
intensifies the nuclear ambition, but also that non-nuclear status
of rival states can promote non-proliferation incentives in
conflicting states inclined to proliferate. This study will be of
great interest to students of Iran, Middle Eastern politics,
nuclear proliferation and international relations theory. Saira
Khan is a Research Associate in the McGill-University of Montreal
Joint Research Group in International Security (REGIS).
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