Titlebook: Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis; Lead Groups and EU F Riccardo Alcaro Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Iran‘

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,Qualifikationen für die zweite Ebene,e of the pre-eminence of the nuclear issue. Nuclear proliferation had been a prominent item in EU-Iran exchanges already in the 1990s. Hence, it came as no surprise that the issue climbed the list of priorities in the EU’s agenda when Iran’s nuclear programme turned out to be far more advanced than

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Die Prophylaxe des endemischen Kropfesce. France, Germany and the United Kingdom (E3) used the ‘US factor’ throughout the nuclear dispute to defend themselves from intra-EU criticisms, build support for their policy line or persuade the other member states to take difficult decisions. On the other hand, EU unity . transatlantic converge

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Book 2018or 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.?

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93375-7rameworks used by the E3/EU to construe the problem (Iran’s behaviour) and the solution (restoration of a rules-based non-proliferation system) were compatible with the established EU foreign policy discourse,?whereby the E3/EU group could endure over time.

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,Qualifikationen für die zweite Ebene,ed in the pre-existing EU?Iran policy. Even though the E3/EU narrowed down the remit of EU-Iran relations to the nuclear issue, they presided over an adaptation of and not a break with the pre-existing EU policy.

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Die Prophylaxe des endemischen Kropfesy closer to EU preferences, the E3/EU could argue that EU-sanctioned coercive measures were a way to strengthen Obama’s hand in forcing Iran back to the negotiating table and fend off criticisms from America’s Middle Eastern allies and their supporters in the US Congress.