TY  - BOOK
AU  - MAHER Richard
TI  - The covert campaign against Iran's nuclear program: implications for the theory and practice of counterproliferation
PY  - 2021///
KW  - COVERT ACTION
KW  - COERCIVE DIPLOMACY
KW  - COUNTERPROLIFERATION
KW  - IRAN
KW  - NUCLEAR WEAPONS
N2  - This paper examines the covert campaign against Iran's nuclear program and the implications it holds for both the theory and the practice of counterproliferation. The paper evaluates the degree to which covert action succeeded in producing meaningful delays and disruptions to Iran's nuclear progress, in enhancing U.S. diplomatic leverage, and in helping to compel Iranian leaders to accept limits and restrictions on their country's nuclear activities. More broadly, the paper analyzes the merits and viability of covert counterproliferation strategies, including how to define and measure the effectiveness of covert counterproliferation activity and how and under what conditions covert counterproliferation can be effective
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2019.1662401
ER  -