Deal or No Deal: How To Negotiate Successful Nuclear Agreements
When are nuclear agreements successfully negotiated? A combination of factors—technical, domestic political, and strategic—enabled Washington and New Delhi to conclude a civil nuclear accord in 2008. The US-India case offers useful lessons for negotiations in progress with Iran, and for possible future nuclear accommodation with Pakistan and North Korea.
Overview
When are nuclear agreements successfully negotiated? A combination of factors—technical, domestic political, and strategic—enabled Washington and New Delhi to conclude a civil nuclear accord in 2008. The US-India case offers useful lessons for negotiations in progress with Iran, and for possible future nuclear accommodation with Pakistan and North Korea (along with other cases such as South Korea, which seeks reprocessing rights). What conditions would enable such agreements to advance through the US political system and that of its negotiating partners? Would partial agreements be more domestically acceptable than comprehensive ones? Dinshaw Mistry, author of the new book The US-India Nuclear Agreement: Diplomacy and Domestic Politics, will discuss the India case. Robert Litwak will talk about Iran, Michael Krepon will address Pakistan, and Joel Wit will speak about North Korea.
Speakers
Dinshaw Mistry
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, Asian Studies, University of Cincinnati
Robert S. Litwak
Michael Krepon
Joel Wit
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