Iran and the United States: The Rise and Fall of the Brief Détente

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Intro; Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1: The Negotiated Political Order and the Making of Iran's Foreign Policy; The Negotiated Political Order: A Precarious Balancing Act; Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Between Idealism and Realism; Beyond the JCPOA: Normalization and Its Challenges; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Iran and the United States: The Rise and Fall of the Brief Détente; Implementing the JCPOA: The Making or Breaking of Normalization; Limiting Terror and Military Interventions: Mission Impossible?; Improving Iran's Human Right Record: Another Mission Impossible? ConclusionReferences; Chapter 3: Iran and Russia: Completing the Pivot to the East?; Building an Economic and Strategic Alliance with Vladimir Putin; Laying the Foundations for a Russian-Iranian Condominium in Syria; The Russian-Iranian Strategy of Preserving the "Binary Option:" Fighting the Anti-Assad Insurgents; The Russian-Iranian Relations in the Trump Era: Future Prospect for the Condominium; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Iran and the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities; The EU and the Path Toward the JCPOA: From Mediator to a Key Player Restarting the EU-Iran Relations: The Economic DimensionThe EU to the Defense: Fighting the American Sanctions; EU's Human Rights Convention and Iran: A Discordant Tone in a Warm Relationship; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Iran and Iraq: The Lebanonization Project in the Balance; Lebanonization of Iraq: Laying the Foundations of the Project; IRGC and the Making of the Islamic State in Iraq; Toward a Shiite-Sunni-Kurdish Federation?; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Iran and Syria: Leveraging the Victory?; From Arab Spring to Civil War; From a Neo-Protectorate to a Syrian Federation? ConclusionReferences; Chapter 7: Iran and Saudi Arabia: The Struggle for Regional Hegemony and Islamic Primacy; The Arab Spring in the Gulf: From Popular Protest to Civil War; Rouhani's Short Détente with Saudi Arabia: The War in Yemen as a Spoiler; The Trump Administration: Tilting the Balance Toward Saudi Arabia; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Iran and Turkey: Frenemies for Ever?; Beyond the Kurds: Working Out the Kinks in the Bilateral Relation; The Arab Spring: Enemies More Than Friends; Operation Euphrates Shield: The View from Ankara and Tehran The Frenemies Endgame: Iran-Turkish Space-Sharing in the Middle East?Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Iran and Israel: Taking on the "Zionist Enemy"; Rouhani's Quest to Change the Attitude to Israel: Realism and Idealism on a Collision Course; Bolstering the Anti-Israel Proxies: Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; Cumulative Deterrence and "War Between Wars": IDF's Response to Asymmetrical Warfare; The End-Game in Syria: Israel's Gains and Losses; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Conclusions; Index