Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East
New York: Routledge, 2012. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxi, [1], 335, [3] pages. Minor top corner wear. Notes. Appendix. Index. Author Kubbig's business card laid in. Card signed/inscribed by this editor. Bernd W. Kubbig is Project Director at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Adjunct Professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Since 2006 he has coordinated the international expert groups “Multilateral Study Group on the Establishment of a Missile Free Zone in the Middle East” and Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East. He specializes in U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, especially on the Middle East, missile defense, and space. Sven-Eric Fikenscher currently serves as an expert rapporteur with the Global Relations Forum’s International Task Force on the Future of the Nuclear Deal with Iran. From 2015 to 2016, he was an associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2012 to 2015 he was a research fellow with the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center. This edited volume provides a systematic analysis of the missile threat and proliferation issue in the Middle East region. The question of how to increase the level of security in the Middle East is not a new one, given the conflict-ridden nature of the region. The solution attempted for this predicament has typically revolved around intense arms build-ups, a strategy which can prove self-defeating due to the subsequent countermeasures employed by neighboring states. Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East focuses on the strategic proliferation of arms, with a specific emphasis on missiles. This unique emphasis enables the contributors to provide a dynamic new perspective on conceptual and political disarmament efforts, thereby distinguishing this volume from many other related works on the region, which deal mainly with weapons of mass destruction. The book also explores the possibility of a reduction in weapon arsenals, examining a more promising cooperative security concept which includes confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs).
This book will be of much interest to students of arms control, Middle Eastern politics, Gulf Security, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Arms Control, Proliferation, Disarmament, Regional Security, Deterrence, Israel, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Verification, Hezbollah, Hamas, Conventional Arms, Technology Control Regime, Hague Code of Conduct, Missile Defense, Missile Free Zone
ISBN: 9780415516396
[Book #85460]
Price: $125.00