April 14, 2009: Combating Nuclear
Proliferation
The News:
- Navy
Tracking Pirates and Their U.S. Hostage, NYT April 9, 2009
- In
Rescue of Captain, Navy Kills 3 Pirates, NYT April 13, 2009
- U.S.
to Join Iran Talks Over Nuclear Program, NYT April 9, 2009
- U.S.
May Drop Key Condition for Talks With Iran, NYT April 14, 2009
- American
Journalist Stands Trial in Iran,
NYT April 15,
2009
- North
Korea Vows to Restart Plant and Boycott Talks, NYT April 14, 2009
- Militants
Unite in Pakistan’s Populous Heart,
NYT April 14,
2009
- Egypt
Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks and Arms Smuggling to
Gaza, NYT April 14, 2009
- Lebanese
Soldiers Killed in Ambush,
NYT April 14,
2009
From 2 years ago:
- Iran
Says It Can Enrich Uranium on a Large Scale NYT Apr 10, 2007
- North
Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents,
NYT April 8, 2007
- Palestinians
don't aspire to being a beggar nation,
by Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Minister of Finance, Daily Star, April 7,
2007
- U.S.
Warplanes Attack Shiite Gunmen as Fighting Persists in City South
of Baghdad, NYT April 8, 2007
- Iraqis
Protest U.S. Occupation of Iraq, NYT
April 9, 2007
- Juan Cole, How
to Get Out of Iraq, The Nation, April 23, 2007
(posted April 5)
- World
Bank Chief Seeks to Quell Favoritism Talk NYT Apr 10, 2007
- Readings :
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS) on
the
history of the Israeli nuclear
program and, from CDI, delivery
systems: [note change on
syllabus and also see Dimona below]
- FAS, WMD: index
of countries
- "Israel
reveals secrets of how it gained bomb" - Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' revelations on TV
in 2001.
- FAS, Iran's nuclear program [supplementary reading]
- Wayne White, Iran:
best to avoid another Gulf crisis,
Middle East Institute, Feb. 12, 2007
- Jacqueline W. Shire, "Iran
Begins to Enrich Uranium," ABC News,
Jan. 10, 2006
- Trita Parsi, "A
Challenge to Israel's Strategic Primacy," Bitter
Lemons, Jan 6, 2006.
- Francois Nicollaud (French ambassador to
Iran 2001-05), Use
reason, not emotion, to deal with Iran , Malaysian Straits
Times, April 9, 2009
- Optional Reading: Congressional Quarterly Press, The Middle East,
"Iran," pp. 241-263
Israel
Iran's growing regional influence
- Hezbollah - Lebanon
- Hamas - West Bank and Gaza
- Informal alliance with Syria (1979- ) - the
Middle East checkerboard
map
- Nuclear weapons for prestige? No, said Ahmedinejad to CBS 60 minutes in 2007.
The Syrian pivot -
Syria: Chess Match at the Borders -
a film by Amal Hamelin des
Essarts, Icarus Films, 2008.
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| syllabus
April 14, 2009
- Department
of Government, College
of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at
Austin.
- Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to
chenry@mail.utexas.edu
