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The Iran Nuclear Issue & the European art of keeping a deal: An analysis of E3/EU initiative’s role patterns towards the 2017-2020’s Iranian Nuclear Issue and the Transatlantic partnership

Dejaiffe, Félix
(2021)

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Supervisors
Aoun, Elena
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Master [120] en sciences politiques, orientation relations internationales, à finalité spécialisée: diplomatie et résolution des conflits
Abstract
The dissertation analyses the role patterns of the members of the E3/EU initiative towards the 2017-2020's Iran Nuclear Crisis. The dissertation mobilises role theory to assess the role patterns of the E3 and of the EU High Representative. It addresses whether France, Germany, the UK, and the High Representative, can shape their own approach to a Europeanised position or even a European role conception regarding the 2017-2020’s Iran Nuclear Crisis, and the proper implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The analysis of the E3/EU role patterns is framed in the case study of the 2017-2020’s Iran Nuclear Crisis and the Trump presidency. Through the analysis of the E3/EU members role patterns, the dissertation assesses whether they positioned themselves through a Europeanised position or tended to align under the umbrella of the transatlantic partnership. By doing so, this dissertation tries to answer the following question: Did the E3/EU Initiative contributed, and how, in strengthening a European position during the American induced Iranian nuclear crisis, between 2017 and 2020? During the different stages of the 2017-2020’s Iran Nuclear Crisis, the E3/EU initiative oscillate between Europeanisation and national role conceptions. It seems that after a calibration towards national role conceptions, the E3/EU members have re-adapted themselves towards a mix of national and European role patterns throughout the Trump presidency, resulting in a coherent Europeanised reponse, which ultimately led to the relative salvaging the JCPOA and a renewed transatlantic engagement under the newly elected Biden presidency in 2021.