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Abstract

For those convinced a breakthrough with the Islamic Republic was imminent, the election of George Walker Bush was a major disappointment. Although Iran did not feature in the campaign, the Democratic contender Al Gore planned to continue the Clinton dialogue with the Islamic Republic. Bush, on the other hand, had little experience in international relations and even less appetite for ambitious foreign policy schemes. In any event, the fragmented Republican Party would have made a foreign policy vision hard to articulate.

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Seliktar, O. (2012). The George W. Bush Administration. In: Navigating Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010889_8

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