This Strategic Update traces the story of this major diplomatic breakthrough, through the historical context of long term US-Iran relations and the tireless international effort to prevent domestic political crises from derailing the negotiations.

Read the Strategic Update:

 The Long Road to Tehran: The Iran Nuclear Deal in Perspective

About the author

Bryan Gibson is the author of Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Covert Relationship: U.S. Foreign Policy, Intelligence and the Iran-Iraq War (Praeger, 2010). He was a Postdoctoral research fellow at IDEAS and PhD gradute of LSE.

Biography from publication date.