Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran: Nuclear Dominoes?

TY - BOOK

T1 - Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran

T2 - Nuclear Dominoes?

AU - Hobbs, Christopher

AU - Moran, Matthew

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - Offering a new perspective on the widely discussed debate on how the international community would respond to a nuclear-armed Iran, this critical research challenges the prevailing wisdom that a nuclear Iran would provoke a nuclear proliferation cascade in the Middle East.Hobbs and Moran assess the proliferation calculus of four key countries, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Syria, as well exploring the possibility that Iran would transfer nuclear materials to terrorists groups. The authors conclude that a nuclear domino effect would be highly unlikely, even in the face of an Iranian bomb, thus undermining one of the major arguments used in support of pre-emptive military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.A range of policy measures are outlined, that could be enacted by the international community to further reduce the risk of a regional proliferation cascade, making this text a must-read for policy makers, security and international relations scholars and all those with an interest in the Middle East.

AB - Offering a new perspective on the widely discussed debate on how the international community would respond to a nuclear-armed Iran, this critical research challenges the prevailing wisdom that a nuclear Iran would provoke a nuclear proliferation cascade in the Middle East.Hobbs and Moran assess the proliferation calculus of four key countries, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Syria, as well exploring the possibility that Iran would transfer nuclear materials to terrorists groups. The authors conclude that a nuclear domino effect would be highly unlikely, even in the face of an Iranian bomb, thus undermining one of the major arguments used in support of pre-emptive military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.A range of policy measures are outlined, that could be enacted by the international community to further reduce the risk of a regional proliferation cascade, making this text a must-read for policy makers, security and international relations scholars and all those with an interest in the Middle East.

KW - Iran

KW - nuclear non-proliferation

KW - nuclear weapons

KW - Middle East

KW - Saudi Arabia

KW - Turkey

KW - Egypt

KW - Syria

U2 - 10.1057/9781137369819

DO - 10.1057/9781137369819

M3 - Book

SN - 9781137369802

T3 - Palgrave pivot

BT - Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire

ER -