Europe and Iran's Nuclear Crisis Lead Groups and EU Foreign Policy-Making

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.

Info autore

Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe of the Brookings Institution. Riccardo holds a PhD from the University of Tuebingen.

Riassunto

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. 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Riccardo Alcaro
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2018
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Sistema politico
• EAN: 9783319742977
• ISBN: 978-3-31-974297-7
• Numero di pagine: 293
• Illustrazioni: XI, 293 p. 2 illus.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 17.7 x 22.2 x 2.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 536 g
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics; Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
• Categorie: Internationale Beziehungen, Europa, B, European Politics, Political Science, International Relations, foreign policy, European Union, Political Science and International Studies, EU (European Union), International Security Studies, Security, International, European Union Politics, international diplomacy, Europeanisation of foreign policy, EU-Iranian nuclear deal, Iranian nuclear weapons, theoretical framework for EU foreign policy, EU/E3 Iran talks, EU/E3 Iran agreements, Iran's nuclear programme, US and Iran nuclear crisis