Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis : Lead Groups and EU Foreign Policy-Making Paperback / softback
by Riccardo Alcaro
Part of the Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics series
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:293 pages, 2 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 293 p. 2 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:22/12/2018
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- ISBN:9783030089580
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:293 pages, 2 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 293 p. 2 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:22/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030089580
