International sanctions against Iran under president Ahmadinejad: explaining regime persistence

This paper seeks to explain how Iran's regime persisted in the face of international sanctions during Mahmud Ahmadinejad's presidency, from 2005 to 2013. It reconstructs the interplay between the intensifying UNSC, US and EU sanctions and the targeted regime's strategies to advance th...

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Subtitles:Der Islamische Staat in Irak und Syrien
Main Author: Borszik, Oliver (Author)
Corporate Author: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Hamburg GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies 2014
In: GIGA working papers (260)
Year: 2014
Series/Journal:GIGA Working Papers 260
GIGA Research Programme: Violence and Security
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Foreign country / Sanction / Iran / Aḥmadīnižād, Maḥmūd 1956- / Political stability / History 2005-2013
Further subjects:B Iran
B Economic sanction
B Sanction
B Arbeitspapier
B Grey literature
B International conflict
B Authoritarianism
Online Access: 14.11.2014)
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Summary:This paper seeks to explain how Iran's regime persisted in the face of international sanctions during Mahmud Ahmadinejad's presidency, from 2005 to 2013. It reconstructs the interplay between the intensifying UNSC, US and EU sanctions and the targeted regime's strategies to advance the nuclear program and maintain intra-elite cohesion. Initially, the nuclear program was expanded due to high oil income in combination with explicit resistance to the presumed regime-change ambitions of the Western sanction senders. At the end of Ahmadinejad's presidency, the decline of foreign exchange earnings from oil exports and the continued regime-change scenario contributed to the neglect of this regimelegitimizing strategy in favor of the maintenance of intra-elite cohesion. My main argument is that once the US and EU oil and financial sanctions curtailed the cost-intensive further development of the nuclear program, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei used these sanctions as an external stimulus to contain burgeoning factional disputes.
Format:Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader.
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10419/103657
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-87148