Foreign Affairs This Week 7/17

Turn Down for What? The Iran Deal and What Will Follow By Robert Jervis The deal with Iran falls far short of what the United States and its European allies would like. Although the question of whether the West could have gotten a better deal is interesting, much more important is the question of whether the deal was better than the breakdown of the negotiations. It was, and by quite a wide margin. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2015-07-15/turn-down-what?cid=nlc-fatoday-20150716&sp_mid=49116752&sp_rid=bWljaGVsZXRrZWFybmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2

The Agreekment That Could Break Europe Euroskeptics, Eurocritics, and Life After the Bailout By Harris Mylonas In their toughness on Greece, EU leaders have failed to understand the real problem in the country and the psychology of the European public. To avoid further fueling the very euroskepticism and sovereigntist tendencies they want to quell, they have to abandon all ideas of vindictiveness and, instead, foster a spirit of cooperation among equal partners.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/greece/2015-07-14/agreekment-could-break-europe?cid=nlc-twofa-20150716&sp_mid=49116752&sp_rid=bWljaGVsZXRrZWFybmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2

Dollar Diplomacy in Tehran How Promoting Business in Iran Boosts the Nuclear Agreement By Eric Lorber and Elizabeth Rosenberg The United States and international partners have signed a historic agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, but they still face important choices about just how far to go in allowing Iran back into the global economy. Allowing—or even encouraging—Western companies to invest in Iran would provide Tehran with incentives to abide by the deal and gives Washington more leverage over Iran in the future.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2015-07-15/dollar-diplomacy-tehran?cid=nlc-twofa-20150716&sp_mid=49116752&sp_rid=bWljaGVsZXRrZWFybmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2 Iranian Politics After the Deal Why It Is Time for Optimism By Mohsen M. Milani It will not be easy to sell the nuclear deal in Iran. One Iranian critic sarcastically tweeted that Iran’s nuclear program is reduced to centrifuges that only can produce atomic carrot juice. But hardliners will have no better alternative than the new deal, and the West should not dismiss the profound changes that make better ties between Iran https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2015-07-15/iranian-politics-after-deal?cid=nlc-twofa-20150716&sp_mid=49116752&sp_rid=bWljaGVsZXRrZWFybmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2and the West more likely. Bullish on Spain Why The Country Is Faring Better than Greece By Omar G. Encarnación Spanish politicians are confident in their claims that Spain is not Greece because of unambiguous economic indicators that signal that the brutal Spanish economic crisis that began in 2009 and that brought up unwelcome comparisons to Greece in the international media, is over. Here's how they saved their country.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/greece/2015-07-14/bullish-spain?cid=nlc-twofa-20150716&sp_mid=49116752&sp_rid=bWljaGVsZXRrZWFybmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2