US - Iran Nuclear Talks: A Game Theory Approach

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THE STANDARD MODEL In the view of offensive realist, John Mearsheimer’s book, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, “the sad fact is that international politics have always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.” With the international system being anarchical, offensive realist, John Mearsheimer states in his book that, “states operating in a self-help world almost always act according to their own self-interests, and do not subordinate their interests to the interests of other states, or to the interests of the so-called international community.” The realists approach to international relations along with the international stage is called the standard security model. The standard security model rationalizes Iranian target to advance its nuclear program since, other states in the Middle East possess nuclear weapons. Using United States (US) intelligence community, it estimates that Pakistan has produced “90-110 warheads” ; none of have been deployed but instead kept in central storage. Similarly, the US intelligence community estimates Indian has around the same number of nuclear warheads, also none have been deployed, but also kept in central storage. Finally, with India and Pakistan both possessing nuclear weapon capability and with the potential of Israel as well, providing the Iranian government with more valid arguments to pursue nuclear weapons in response to increasing their national interest, which in this case is their security. INTERNATIONAL NORMS International norms on nuclear weapons have played a noteworthy role in the United States (US) and international community by attempting to get Iranian leaders to negotiate the release of their nuclear program. The first real establis... ... middle of paper ... .... http://www.jstor.org/stable/2486437 “Status of World Nuclear Forces.” Federation of American Scientists. Last modified 2013. Accessed October 28, 2013. http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html Sayah, Reza. “Iran nuclear talks: Anger, gloom in Tehran after deal falls through. CNN. Last Modified November 11, 2013. Accessed December 1, 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/11/world/meast/iran-nuclear-talks-tehran-reaction/ “The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Program: Policy Options.” Watson Institute for international studies, Brown University. Last Modified 2012. Accessed October 30, 2013. http://www.choices.edu/resources/twtn/documents/choices-twtn-iran-options.pdf Zagare, Franck C. “Game Theory.” Security Studies an Introduction 2nd Edition. Edited by Paul D. Williams. (New York, Routledge, 2013). 49-50, 52

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