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Military and Strategic Affairs, Volume 5, No. 3, December 2013

Preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weapons contravenes a particular understanding of containment. However, a renewed and sophisticated containment policy understood as mastering and constraining great wars and mass violence, including combating the spread of WMD and the escalation of violent conflicts, should be the overarching political aim of the international community. The strategy of containment was successfully applied against the USSR and eventually led to the demise of that superpower. The question then arises how to adjust containment policy to make it an applicable and appropriate strategy for this globalized world.
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