1st Edition
Arms Control and Iranian Foreign Policy Diplomacy of Discontent
Introduction Part 1: Conventional Arms Control 1. Islamic Iran and the Shah’s Military Legacy 2. Arms Control in the Context of War: The Iran--Iraq Conflict 3. From the Cease-Fire to Global Security Networking Part 2: Chemical and Biological Arms Control 4. Iraqi Chemical Threat 5. Iran’s Post-War Chemical Diplomacy 6. Islamic Iran and Biological Arms Control Part 3: Nuclear Arms Control 7. Formation of a Diplomatic Approach 8. From the Cease-Fire to the Test-Ban Treaty 9. From the Test-Ban to Iran’s Signing of the Additional Protocol Conclusion Epilogue: the Ahmadinejad Era
Biography
Bobi Pirseyedi is an independent scholar, having completed a PhD in Middle East Studies at the University of Durham.
"Pirseyedi provides the first comprehensive account of arms control diplomacy under the Iranian regime. He examines Iran’s diplomatic relations in the area of arms control, and how arms control has been an integral part of its foreign policy throughout the Islamic Republic’s history." - Survival
