Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Foreign Policy Decision Making in Iran and the Nuclear Program

Chapter 2: Ayatollah Khamenei’s Foreign Policy Orientation

Chapter 3: Hassan Rouhani’s Election and its Consequences for American Foreign Policy

Chapter 4: The Perils and Costs of a Grand Bargain with the Islamic Republic of Iran

Chapter 5: The Sources of the Middle East’s Crises and American Grand Strategy

Chapter 6: U.S.-Iran Confrontation in the Post-NIE World: An Analysis of Alternative Policy Options

Chapter 7: U.S.-Iran Confrontation: Domestic Asymmetrical Ramifications

About the Author

Masoud Kazemzadeh is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Sam Houston State University, USA. He received his BA in international relations from the University of Minnesota, and his MA and PhD in political science from the University of Southern California. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.