TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gold,Dore
TI  - The rise of nuclear Iran: how Tehran defies the West 
SN  - 9781596985711 (alk. paper) :
AV  - UA 853 G618r 2009
U1  - 355.02/170955 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Regnery Publishing.
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Iran
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Nuclear arms control
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1997-
KW  - Armas nucleares
KW  - Energía nuclear
KW  - Política gubernamental
KW  - Control de las armas nucleares
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - 1997
N1  - Map on end papers; Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-378) and index; Introduction: diplomacy or democracy -- pt. 1. The anatomy of diplomatic failure -- Could the Islamic Republic of Iran be deterred? -- The revelation of the Iranian nuclear program and the Western response -- pt. 2. The history of misreading Iran -- Underestimating enmity: President Jimmy Carter and the new Islamic republic -- Iran attacks America in Beirut, but the Secretary of Defense is in denial -- Nuclear expansion under the robe of moderation -- After 9/11: a missed opportunity for U.S.-Iranian engagement? -- pt. 3. Why Western dialogue with Iran failed -- Where did the West go wrong? -- Understanding Ahmadinejad and the Revolutionary Guards' regime -- The Iranian octopus: Tehran's subversion across the Middle East -- The last opportunity to stop Iran -- Iranian elections and new Western options
ER  -