Iran: The Nuclear Challenge

Elliott Abrams · Robert D. Blackwill · Robert M. Danin

Jun 2012 · Council on Foreign Relations

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Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading experts-CFR's Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew Kroenig, Meghan L. O'Sullivan, and Ray Takeyh-on the issues and contingencies surrounding Iran's nuclear program, including sanctions, negotiations, U.S. and Israeli military options, regime change, and how to deal with a latent or actual Iranian nuclear weapons capability. This volume presents one of the clearest pictures of Iran's nuclear program to date, along with the various policy options available to the United States and others and their potential consequences.

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Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East. Abrams joined the Bush administration as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council (NSC) for democracy, human rights, and international organizations. From 2002 to 2005, he served as special assistant to the president and senior director of the NSC for Near East and North African affairs. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy from 2005 to 2009. In that capacity he supervised both the Near East and North African affairs and the democracy, human rights, and international organizations directorates of the NSC. Abrams served in the State Department during all eight years of the Reagan administration, first as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, then as assistant secretary for human rights and humanitarian affairs, and finally as assistant secretary for inter-American affairs. He holds a BA from Harvard, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD from Harvard Law School. Robert D. Blackwill is Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. As deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, he was responsible for government-wide policy planning to help develop and coordinate the mid- and long-term direction of American foreign policy. He served as presidential envoy to Iraq and was coordinator for U.S. policies regarding Afghanistan and Iran. He went to the National Security Council after serving as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003, and is the recipient of the 2007 Bridge-Builder Award for his role in transforming U.S.-India relations. He was previously the Belfer lecturer in international security at the Harvard Kennedy School. From 1989 to 1990, Blackwill was special assistant to President George H.W. Bush for European and Soviet affairs, during which time he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to German unification. The author and editor of many articles and books on U.S. foreign policy and security, he is on the council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Aspen Strategy Group, and on the board of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Robert M. Danin is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He headed the Jerusalem mission of the Quartet representative, Tony Blair, from April 2008 until August 2010. A former career State Department official with over twenty years of Middle East experience, Danin previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs with responsibilities for Israeli-Palestinian issues and Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. He also served at the National Security Council for over three years, first as director for Israeli-Palestinian affairs and the Levant and then as acting senior director for Near East and North African affairs. A recipient of the State Department's Superior Honor Award, Danin has served as a Middle East and Gulf specialist on the secretary of state's policy planning staff, and as a senior Middle East political and military analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Prior to joining the State Department, he worked as a Jerusalem-based journalist covering Israeli and Palestinian politics. Danin holds a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley, an MSFS degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and a doctorate in the international relations of the Middle East from St. Antony's College, Oxford University.

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