Deterrence and Deniability: How Iran Allocates Coercive Resources across Axis of Assistance

• In Event: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, and Security

Brief Overview

The paper theorizes how states manage coercive power through proxy networks and tests the argument with Iran’s Axis of Resistance, showing how Tehran allocates coercive resources to balance deterrence and deniability

Author

• Yan Shen, Johns Hopkins University