Arms Control and Proliferation in the Middle East

Description

This edited volume provides a comprehensive, systematic and innovative analysis of the missile threat/proliferation issue in the Middle East.

The volume starts from the recognition of the pronounced security dilemma in the region. It is above all defined by the multi-faceted and in part overlapping conflict formations and by the constant arms build ups. Emphasizing the entire spectrum of missiles, including ‚kitchen-made‘ unguided rockets launched by sub-state actors such as Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as the sophisticated guided (ballistic and cruise) missiles of major states, the book argues that the missile threat/proliferation problem can be reduced and eventually overcome only by a Cooperative Security Concept. Major elements within this framework are variants of arms control (Confidence- and Security-building Measures [CSBMs], reductions and the long-term vision of a Missile Free Zone [MFZ]). For such a strategy to be effective it will have to be implemented step by step. The Cooperative Security Concept will be politically acceptable to the key actors in the region only if it is perceived by them as a means which increases their security. In addition, vital interests of major extra-regional players will have to be taken into account. This assumption led to the following research question of this book: under which circumstances are gradual missile-related arms control steps feasible and politically acceptable?

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.

Contents

Foreword

1. Coping Constructively with the Missile Threat in the Middle East, Bernd Kubbig

PART I: MISSILES AND THEIR PROLIFERATION AS A THREAT

2. Regional WMD Disarmament Efforts: Understanding Past Experiences, Emily B. Landau and Dalia Dassa Kaye

3. The Need for Security Cooperation: The Destabilizing Role of Missiles, Dennis Gormley and Colin Clarke

Part II: CONDITIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH

4. Military Asymmetries: Objections from Syria, Iran, and from GCC States, Bernd Kubbig, Murhaf Jouejati, Nasser Hadian-Jazy, Mahmood Sariolghalam, Ahmed Saif, and Sven-Eric Fikenscher

5. Israel's Security Interests: Deterrence Policy in a Changing Strategic Environment, Uri Bar-Joseph

6. Nuclear Control Measures: A Prerequisite for the Gradual Arms Reductions Process Towards a Missile Free Zone, Uri Bar-Joseph and Marvin Miller

7. The Role of External Actors: Arms Suppliers and Norm-builders, Gülden Ayman, Anton Khlopkov, and Hui Zhang, and Sven-Eric Fikenscher

8. The Verification Issue: Concepts, Requirements, and Technologies, Jürgen Scheffran, Bernd W. Kubbig, Bharat Gopalaswamy, Dennis Gormley, Uzi Rubin, and Hartwig Spitzer

9. Outlining Disarming Strategies I: Hamas, Margret Johannsen, Anat Kurz, and Ghassan Khatib

10. Outlining Disarming Strategies II: Hezbollah, Judith Harik and Walid Khalid Abu-Dalbouh

Part III: THREE MILESTONES TO OVERCOME THE SECURITY DILEMMA

11. The Expansion of the UN Register of Conventional Weapons: (Re)assuring Confidence-building and Transparency, Bernd W. Kubbig, Sven-Eric Fikenscher, Patrick Flamm, and Lina Golob

12. Restrictions and Incentives for Containing Missile Proliferation: The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and the Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC), Dinshaw Mistry & Mark Smith

13. Caps and Bans: Missile Limitation Regimes and the Role of Missile Defence, Bernd W. Kubbig, Steve Hildreth, Sverre Lodgaard, Reuven Pedatzur, Anton Khlopkov, and Raymo Väyrynen

14. Conclusions, Bernd Kubbig

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Related Subjects

1. Foreign Policy
2. International Security
3. Strategic Studies
4. Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns
5. War & Conflict Studies
6. Middle East Politics
7. International Organizations