Balancing for  In Security: An Analysis of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis in the  Light of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Andreas BOCK

Makale detayları

Balancing for In Security: An Analysis of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis in the Light of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Yazarlar:

Andreas BOCK

Yayıncı:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Dergi:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2014 Vol.19 Issue 2, pp.113-138

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2014

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000585631

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641

Özet:

 

Israel and the US are currently balancing against Iran because both perceive a nucleararmed Iran as a threat to regional and world security. But does balancing really work? Does it reduce threat and provide security? I will use Stephan M. Walt’s “Balance of Threat” theory to address these questions. In addition to Walt’s theory, I assume that perceiving a state’s intention s  as aggressive is decisive for that state being  perceived as  a threat. I hypothesise that balancing fails and likely backfires in that it exacerbates the security dilemma and reinforces the threat perceived by the balancing states  Israel und the US . The use of balancing strategies in the current Iranian nuclear crisis would be futile and, if anything, would only strengthen the belief in Tehran that Iranian nuclear weapons are a necessary means of deterrence and self-defence.

Makale detayları

Balancing for In Security: An Analysis of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis in the Light of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Yazarlar: Andreas BOCK

Yayıncı: T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Dergi: PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2014 Vol.19 Issue 2, pp.113-138

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2014

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000585631

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2651-3315

pISSN: 1300-8641

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Andreas BOCK

Yayıncı:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Dergi:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2014 Vol.19 Issue 2, pp.113-138

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2014

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000585631

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641