This book seeks both to engage the academic debate surrounding Iran and North Korea and inform foreign policy decision-making on the contemporary security challenges posed by their nuclear aspirations.

1. Introduction 2. A Comparative History 3. Domestic Politics, Economy, and Ideology 4. Foreign and Security Policy and Human Rights 5. Nonproliferation 6. Conclusions and Policy Implications

Patrick McEachern is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, Foreign Service Officer, and author of Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics (2010). He has a PhD from Louisiana State University.

Jaclyn O'Brien McEachern is a practicing canon lawyer and author of multiple scholarly articles on the West's relations with Islam. She has a PhD from The Catholic University of America.