Dina Esfandiary is CSSS Fellow in the War Studies Department at King's College London, UK and an Adjunct Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C, USA. Prior to joining King's College London, she was a Research Associate in the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, which she joined from a disarmament NGO in Geneva. She was also International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, USA. Esfandiary's work has appeared in a range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The National Interest, International Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly. She is the co-author of Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging (2016).

Ariane Tabatabai is Director of Curriculum and Visiting Assistant Professor of Security Studies at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, USA. She is also Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington D.C, USA. Previously she was Research Fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, USA and an International Civilian Consultant for NATO. Tabatabai's work has appeared in a range of scholarly publications, including International Security and The Journal of Strategic Studies, as well as in general-interest publications such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs.

Introduction
Revisionist powers in a post-American world
Economic ties
Foreign policy
Defense
Prospects for future cooperation in a post-nuclear deal world
Conclusion