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Extended Deterrence: The U.S. Credibility Gap in the Middle East
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2005
- pp. 169-186
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Iranian nuclear proliferation could prove uniquely dangerous because of the potential to ignite regional proliferation in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others. Unlike in Asia, the U.S. has few good options for reassuring allies in the Middle East.