Abstract
Amsterdam Law Forum (ALF) is the student-run 'International Law Journal' of VU University. Every year ALF publishes a winter, spring, and summer issue. The journal consists of three sections; scientific articles, opinion articles, and commentaries. As of this year, ALF also creates a section for inaugural speeches. In addition, ALF hosts a conference in spring with a relevant legal theme, where renowned speakers are invited to share their perspectives. Overall, ALF is a topical journal that provides a platform for established scholars and young academics to share knowledge, opinions and experiences and to make contributions to the international law discourse. Staff, PhD students and master students who have written a very good thesis are invited to submit an article to ALF. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb: we are looking forward to sharing your articles on our website!
Highlights
One of the main questions of the international political community at this moment seems to be: how can we stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons? One approach aims to ‘change the behavior’ of Tehran by using the containment-doctrine,[1] which for example had sought a balance of power between Iran and Iraq in order to contain whichever nation seemed to present the greatest threat at the time
The threat from Iran is its nuclear program, or its consequent support for terrorism, and the ambition of the government to export its Islamic revolution to the world, institutionalized in article 2 of its Constitution.[2]
Due to their lack of understanding and empathy with Iranian decision makers, many Western countries assume that the Islamic leaders of Iran act rationally
Summary
Western countries think that the Iranian decision makers can be restrained with constant and endless-dialogues, threatening them with sanctions or a military action They think that the nuclear issue has a central priority for Iranian decision makers, as it does for the West. Depriving a nation of its rights to sovereignty and making it "godly" means withdrawing from a nation its right to selfdetermination. In this case, the branches of government derive their power not from the people, but from God.[4]. Iran’s regional supremacy is not a result of its conventional military power, but its capability to supervise these proxies and motivate them to start smallscale proxy hostilities, such as the 33 days war[7] between Hizballah and Israel in 2006. Tehran institutionalized a major misinformation to its real and substantial threat (power of the people) in the shadow of becoming nuclear
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