Tehran Rising - Berman, Ilan

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Résumé :
Iran is the most significant current threat to the United States, the Middle East, and the West. As the evidence demonstrating this threat mounts, one thing remains clear to Ilan Berman: 'Washington is woefully unprepared to deal with this mounting peril.' Berman's approach is hard-hitting, provocative, alarmist, and unflinchingly critical. But he takes the indictment of Iran one step further providing what has been missing so far in the foreign policy discourse regarding Iran_both within the U.S. government and outside it_policy prescriptions designed to contain Iran's strategic ambitions....

Biographie:
Ilan Berman is one of the rising stars of American foreign policy. As vice president for policy of the Washington-based American Foreign Policy Council, he is a frequent guest on radio and television. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. His writings on international security and American foreign policy have appeared in such influential publications as The National Interest, the International Herald Tribune, and the Financial Times, among others. Berman is adjunct professor for International Law and Global Security at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He also serves as a member of the reconstituted Committee on the Present Danger, and as Editor of the Journal of International Security Affairs. He is also the coeditor (with J. Michael Waller) of Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (2006)....

Sommaire:

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction: Iran's Ascendance
Part 3 Part I: A Gathering Threat
Chapter 4 Terror's Source
Chapter 5 The Real Islamic Bomb
Chapter 6 Suddenly a Superpower
Chapter 7 The Northern Front
Part 8 Part II: Toward an American Response
Chapter 9 In Search of a U.S. Approach
Chapter 10 The Start of a Strategy
Chapter 11 Iranians for Regime Change
Part 12 Conclusion: Promise and Peril