POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Iranian Revolution, Theocracy, Twelver
12 Mar 2016
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Nuclear powers of the world first five countries to develop nuclear power are also the five permanent members in the un security council. Other powers have acquired nuclear power now, eg. israel, india, pakistan. Brazil, argentina, south africa abandon nuclear weapons. Edelman et al. argues that us red lines (signalling) would not deter iran. Getting nuclear weapons makes both rival states more stable they know the destruction that would happen: mad (mutual assured destruction) Us power and influence would be diminished: unable to deter iran, other countries will be bold and try to loom over. Argue that increasing regional us military presence would boost leverage, deterrence. Edelman et al. on risks of nuclear iran. Arabia) very unstable: once one side has advanced rivalry, the other will want to do so as well. Waltz argues the middle east is the only region with a sole nuclear power leads to imbalance because power begs to be balanced .
