This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of
Coming at the heels of September 11, Operation Iraqi Freedom has focused the limelight on the way in which the United States predicts and manages political change. The failure to find WMD an
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the close of the Cold War took many in Washington by surprise. In this study, Seliktar (Gratz College and Temple University) analyzes this major predictive failure
Seliktar (political science, Melrose Park) analyzes the failure of the 1993 Oslo accords to bring about a lasting settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She argues that the whole Oslo process
Washington's failure to foresee the collapse of its superpower rival ranks high in the pantheon of predictive failures. The question of who got what right or wrong has been intertwined with the deeper
This book analyzes the process of evaluating Iran’s nuclear project and efforts to roll it back, resulting in the 2015 nuclear agreement. To highlight the technological problems and the politici
