The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Policy toward the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
This chapter, from The International Politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: The Original “Frozen Conflict” and European Security (ed. Svante E. Cornell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), examines how Tehran approaches the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Shaffer argues that Iran’s policy is driven by pragmatic security concerns rather than the religious solidarity often assumed to guide it. The chapter shows […]
Israel’s Energy Resource Management Policy: Lessons For Small Markets
Brenda Shaffer examines how Israel developed a management strategy for the major natural gas resources it discovered in 2009-2010, arguing that its initial approach of forming several inter-ministerial committees to weigh policy options before production and export began was unusual and useful, since most states start producing and exporting newly discovered energy resources without first […]