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A Single Roll Of The Dice
Trita Parsi
Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
Yale University Press
February 2012
On Sale: January 24, 2012
304 pages ISBN: 0300169361 EAN: 9780300169362 Kindle: B006M3JVAO Hardcover / e-Book
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Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration
toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis
on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit
of regime change a better approach? How can the United
States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book
provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of the
Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to Iran and
discusses the best way to move toward more positive
relations between the two discordant states. Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign policy expert with
extensive Capitol Hill and United Nations experience,
interviewed 70 high-ranking officials from the U.S., Iran,
Europe, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Brazil—including
the top American and Iranian negotiators—for this book.
Parsi uncovers the previously unknown story of American and
Iranian negotiations during Obama's early years as
president, the calculations behind the two nations'
dealings, and the real reasons for their current stalemate.
Contrary to prevailing opinion, Parsi contends that
diplomacy has not been fully tried. For various reasons,
Obama's diplomacy ended up being a single roll of the dice.
It had to work either immediately—or not at all. Persistence
and perseverance are keys to any negotiation. Neither Iran
nor the U.S. had them in 2009.
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