Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

Pollack, Kenneth

ISBN 10: 1476733929 / ISBN 13: 9781476733920

Published by Simon & Schuster (edition 2nd Print), 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (edition 2nd Print)
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476733929
• ISBN 13: 9781476733920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Print.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

The world’s foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations examines Iran’s current nuclear potential and charts America’s future course of action.

How close are we to a nuclear Iran? What does it mean for American foreign policy? How did we get to this point? And what do we do now?

In Unthinkable, Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA analyst with twenty-five years of experience working on the Middle East, explores America’s intractable problem with Iran, Tehran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, and the pro­longed clash that led us to this point. Pollack lays out key solutions to the Iran nuclear ques­tion, explaining and assessing the options for American policymakers:

• Redoubling our efforts at a carrot-and-stick approach that combines negotiations and sanctions
• Aiding the Iranian opposition to bring about a popular form of regime change
• An Israeli military strike
• The American military option
• Containing a nuclear Iran

Insightful, powerful, and balanced in its approach, Unthinkable is one of the most thought­ful and important books on foreign policy in the past decade.

About the Author

Kenneth Pollack is a well-known expert on the Middle East and Persian Gulf and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Charlie Rose, C-SPAN, and NPR. He is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Dr. Pollack earned his BA from Yale and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of seven other books on the political, military, and economic affairs of the Middle East, including Unthinkable, The Threatening Storm and The Persian Puzzle.