Will Obama 'Double Down' On Iran - Or Will Nuclear Talks End In A 'Nightmare'?

BROOKINGS

BY SUZANNE MALONEY

Yesterday, Brookings Foreign Policy program launched its 2014 edition of "Big Bets & Black Swans: A Presidential Briefing Book," a series of memos offering recommendations by Brookings experts to President Obama on the most pressing foreign policy challenges for the forthcoming year. The papers are grouped in five categories: Big Bets, Double Downs, Black Swans, Nightmares, and Holds. Two of the memos focus on Iran — my own proposal that the administration "double down" on its investment in diplomacy with Iran, and a countervailing set of policy recommendations, written by Brookings Senior Fellows and former U.S. policymakers Robert Einhorn and Kenneth Pollack, addressing the potential "nightmare" of a collapse in the nuclear negotiations.

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