{"id":27559,"date":"2012-10-15T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/theseis-eliamep-2-2012-to-dikio-kai-adiko-tou-keneth-ouoltz-gia-tin-iraniki-vomva\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:04:00","slug":"theseis-eliamep-2-2012-to-dikio-kai-adiko-tou-keneth-ouoltz-gia-tin-iraniki-vomva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/theseis-eliamep-2-2012-to-dikio-kai-adiko-tou-keneth-ouoltz-gia-tin-iraniki-vomva\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0395\u039bIAMEP Thesis 2\/2012: \u2018Why Kenneth Waltz is both right and wrong about the Iranian bomb\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/map-iran.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12248\" title=\"map iran\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/map-iran.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ELIAMEP-Thesis2.pdf\">present thesis<\/a>\u00a0authored by Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos examines Kenneth Waltz\u2019s position that \u201cA nuclear-armed Iran would\u2026most likely restore stability to the Middle East\u201d and argues that although Iran\u2019s nuclearization will not cause a substantial increase in the probability of nuclear use in the region, it remains nevertheless an unwelcome development as it will probably increase regional instability.\u00a0However, the \u2018demonization\u2019 of Iran has inflated the value of its nuclear capabilities and strengthened the hardliners. The West should \u2018\u2019return to a sense of proportion\u2019\u2019 and \u2018\u2019re-enlarge the zoom\u2019\u2019 of its relations with Iran, which is too important for the West to be reduced to the nuclear issue.\u00a0Finally, there is an urgent need to address the regional security vacuum and try to create a new comprehensive regional security system in the Gulf region.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"sidebar-t\" class=\"right sidebar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0present thesis\u00a0authored by Director General of ELIAMEP Dr Thanos Dokos examines Kenneth Waltz\u2019s position that \u201cA nuclear-armed Iran would\u2026most likely restore stability to the Middle East\u201d and argues that although Iran\u2019s nuclearization will not cause a substantial increase in the probability of nuclear use in the region, it remains nevertheless an unwelcome development as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,101],"tags":[],"program":[20],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44314,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions\/44314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}