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Status Ambitions and Iranian Nuclear Reversal
How can Iran's nuclear path be explained, and what factors could foster nuclear reversal?
Existing studies also highlight how an improving external security environment can facilitate nuclear reversal, yet this article offers a hybrid explanation combining status and security threat reduction.
This article holds that when a state does not covet power status but rather emphasizes less forceful means of setting its status apart from other states, it facilitates nuclear reversal.7 Nuclear reversal occurs when a state aspiring to have nuclear weapons, or even possessing them, gives up its nuclear ambitions and any nuclear weapons it has.8 Status may be defined as a state's assessed position in a valued international or regional hierarchy.9 Status and prestige are often cited as nuclear incentives,10 but status explanations for nuclear policy could be more fully articu- lated, particularly for forms of status that are incompatible with nuclear designs.
When controversial nuclear pursuits endanger important status goals, states become favorable to nuclear reversal.
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