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The ongoing nuclear impasses with both North Korea and Iran reflect a persisting tension in U.S. policy鈥攚hether the objective toward 鈥渞ogue鈥� states should be to change their regimes鈥� behavior or to change the regimes themselves. Should nuclear diplomacy be transactional, focused narrowly on the discrete nuclear challenge, or transformational, comprehensively addressing these regimes鈥� objectionable behavior? Rhetorically, with both North Korea and Iran, the Trump administration aspires for the transformational.

To break the impasses, the Trump administration should pivot from a transformational strategy to the transactional. The current transformational approach relies on maximalist goals that cannot be attained short of regime change. Transactional diplomacy with discrete, limited objectives offers a plausible pathway for constraining, not eliminating, these states鈥� threatening capabilities.