ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The book shows how diverging interpretations over the terms 'The international community', 'rogue states', 'illegitimacy' and 'fairness' in international relations lay at the root of policy contestations between different actors involved in the Iranian nuclear conflict. It analyzes the foreign policies of China, Russia and Turkey towards the Iranian nuclear programme. It offers a two-level model of foreign policy to understand Chinese, Russian and Turkish Iran policies: Norm advocacy on a discursive level need not be coherently translated into actual policies on a behavioural level. The Iranian nuclear crisis is a proxy for numerous fundamental debates about international relations. Cutting across the disciplines of International Relations, Security Studies, Area Studies and studies in inter-regionalism, the book argues that the co-existence between dominant powers and powers that favour revisions to international security governance is characterised by the interacting forces of contestation and accommodation.
