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.
Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis Ebook
Lead Groups and EU Foreign Policy-Making
By: Riccardo Alcaro
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Print ISBN: 9783319742977, 3319742973
eText ISBN: 9783319742984, 3319742981
Copyright year: 2018
Format: EPUB
Available from $ 129.00 USD
SKU: 9783319742984
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