Iran's Strategic Penetration of Latin America
Title | Iran's Strategic Penetration of Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph M. Humire |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2014-10-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0739182676 |
In recent years, significant attention has focused upon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the threat they pose to the United States and the West. Far less well understood, however, has been the phenomenon of Iran’s regional advance in America’s own Hemisphere—an intrusion that has both foreign policy and national security implications for the United States and its allies. In this collection, noted specialists and regional experts examine the various facets of Iran’s contemporary presence in Central and South America, and detail what the Islamic Republic’s growing geopolitical footprint south of the U.S. border signifies, both for Iran and for the United States.
Iran in Latin America
Title | Iran in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Arnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Iran |
ISBN | 9781933549958 |
The essays in this report reflect an effort to provide background and context for understanding Iran's relations with Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela; the articles emphasize the foreign policy objectives and strategies of Latin American nations as well as the strategic objectives of the Iranian government.
When the Third World Matters
Title | When the Third World Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Charles Desch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The role of third world countries in the grand strategies of great countries has always been uncertain. Having a low GNP, and consequently little real or latent military power, third world nations were considered unimportant from a military point of view. Yet great powers have traditionally been deeply involved in the periphery. Political scientist Michael Desch resolves this paradox, arguing that such areas can be of key importance for a variety of reasons. His discussion of the role third world nations can play in strategic matters is of particular relevance to developments in the post-Cold War world. When the Third World Matters examines U.S. strategy relating to Latin America at four critical points in history: World War I, World War II, the Cuban missile crisis, and the later Cold War. Desch shows how areas that appeared to have no inherent strategic interests nonetheless proved significant, either as a stopping point or entry way to some other, strategically important, area or as a foil to direct a rival power's attention from the main theater of action. The lessons learned from these cases, he argues, are of particular relevance to the making of U.S. post-Cold War strategy elsewhere in the third world - in Africa, the Middle East, or South Asia.
Exporting the Revolution
Title | Exporting the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Paige Joca |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | International relations and terrorism |
ISBN |
This thesis will examine Iran's increasing strategic footprint in Latin America, Africa, and East Asia to further its mission and circumvent Western sanctions and international isolation. Iran's use of various lines of effort: diplomatic; military; cultural and religious; nuclear; strategic resources; and economic have been used to carry out its overall strategic plan. The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been an adversary of the United States and a major focus of US foreign policy abroad. Much attention in recent years has been on Iran's nuclearization and P5+1 negotiations to convince Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions in exchange for an ease on economic sanctions. However, the narrow scope of focus on Iran's nuclear program leaves the other aspects of its increasing strategic footprint overlooked. Increasingly, Iran has been focusing its efforts in regions outside of the Middle East to include Latin America, Africa, and East Asia. While preliminary relationships between Iran and each region may have been predicated on fundamental similarities, the overarching strategy remains strikingly similar: increase diplomatic and economic alliances to circumvent Western sanctions; gain access to strategic resources; and export the revolution through intelligence bases and surreptitious networks abroad. This thesis will examine Iran's motivations, beliefs, intentions, and capabilities in Latin America, Africa, and East Asia and resulting US policy implications.
The War of All the People
Title | The War of All the People PDF eBook |
Author | Jon B. Perdue |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597978035 |
The "real" "clash of civilizations"
Explaining Iran's Grand Strategy in Latin America
Title | Explaining Iran's Grand Strategy in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Lea Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Iran |
ISBN |
Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Title | Iran's Revolutionary Guard PDF eBook |
Author | Steven O'Hern |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2012-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1597977012 |
Since the Iranian Revolution more than thirty years ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, has conducted covert and overt military operations, built an economic empire, and trained, financed, and guided terrorists to pursue one goalùthe preservation and expansion of the Islamic revolution. Inside Iran the IRGC influences the country's politics, economy, and foreign policy, and controls its nuclear program. Outside Iran the operations of the IRGC and its proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Shiite militias in Iraq, have left a trail of deathùfrom the 1983 truck bombings in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers and 58 French paratroopers to numerous attacks on U.S. (and allied) troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, no longer content to strike in Iraq and Afghanistan or at targets in the Middle East and south Asia, the IRGC and Hezbollah operate throughout North and South America, developing the capability to strike the continental United States and deliver a blow to America's economy far worse than today's financial crisis. In Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Steven O'Hern reveals new information about the IRGC and Hezbollah operations inside America based on interviews with former and active members of the FBI, CIA, local law enforcement, military intelligence, and even one former Revolutionary Guard officer. The author details how the IRGC has grown into such a dangerous foe and explains how its members' activities have put the American economy and American lives at risk. His research suggests that the IRGC may be planning to explode, high above a Midwestern city, a nuclear weapon that would emit an electromagnetic pulse strong enough to render anything with a computer chip useless, including the hundreds of transformers that control the country's electrical grid. One thing is certain, according to O'Hern: the Revolutionary Guard is a serious threat to the well-being of all U.S. citizens.