Nuclear Crises with North Korea and Iran: From Transformational to Transactional Diplomacy
- ISBN-10
- 193802785X
- ISBN-13
- 9781938027857
- Category
- Diplomacy
- Pages
- 127
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Author
- Robert S. Litwak
Description
The impetus for this monograph was the ongoing nuclear impasse with North Korea after the abortive Trump-Kim summit in February 2019, in tandem with the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement in May 2018, which has generated heightened tensions and risk of a military clash. The Trump administration eschewed its predecessor’s transactional approach toward Iran, focused on the discrete nuclear issue, in favor of a transformational strategy—a comprehensive set of 12 demands that would essentially necessitate a change of regime in Tehran. With North Korea, the administration has also pursued a transformational strategy, which would entail near-term, full denuclearization in advance of meaningful sanctions relief. That demand has produced a diplomatic impasse as North Korea will not relinquish a nuclear arsenal viewed as essential to regime survival. Against the backdrop of those events, this monograph makes the analytical case for a pragmatic pivot from the transformational back to the transactional to constrain the two adversarial proliferators’ threatening capabilities.
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