| ID | 151392 |
| Title Proper | Transatlantic dialogue on Iran |
| Other Title Information | the European subaltern and hegemonic constraints in the implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Pieper, Moritz |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article analyses the US–EU transatlantic dialogue on the Iranian nuclear dossier with a particular view to the implications for EU foreign policy on Iran. Doing so, it uses neo-Gramscian scholarship to put the EU’s “over-compliance” with Iran sanctions into perspective. Constrained by the imperatives of hegemonic coercion in the form of US financial Iran sanctions against third country entities and with the hegemonic consent of a Western US-led “historic bloc”, Europe was relegated to a subaltern below its mediatory potential. It will be shown how this finding complicates the EU’s ambition to renew relations with Iran. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with experts and delegation members from the P5+1, this article thus analyses “the normative element” in the transatlantic security dialogue on Iran at a time where the latter is undergoing a sea change in the wake of the implementation of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” of July 2015. |
| `In' analytical Note | European Security Vol. 26, No.1; Mar 2017: p.99-119 |
| Journal Source | European Security Vol: 26 No 1 |
| Key Words | Critical Security Studies ; Hegemony ; Nuclear Diplomacy ; US Foreign Policy ; Iranian Nuclear Programme ; EU Diplomacy |