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Regional Security Dialogue in the Middle East: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities book cover

1st Edition

Regional Security Dialogue in the Middle East Changes, Challenges and Opportunities

Edited By Chen Kane, Egle Murauskaite Copyright 2014
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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At this time of considerable political turmoil in the Middle East, there is a pressing need to explore alternative frameworks for regional security. The book discusses the Helsinki Process as one potentially relevant historical model to learn from. The Helsinki Process began in a divided Europe in the early 1970s and, over 40 years, achieved major successes in promoting cooperation between... Read more
Introduction – Chen Kane & Egle Murauskaite Part I: The Helsinki Process 1 Cautious Optimism – Lynn M. Hansen 2 A Zone in the Middle East – Rolf Ekeus  Part II: Perspectives from the Region and Outside 3 The Helsinki Process and the Middle East – Nabil Fahmy & Karim Haggag 4 The Helsinki Process and its Relevance in a Changing Middle East  - Ehud Eiran 5 Nuclear-Weapon- Free Zone in the Middle East: a Political View – Turki Al Faisal & Awadh Al-Bad 6 Domestic Politics in Iran and a Future Regional Process – Ariane M. Tabatabai 7 Lessons learned – Nilsu Goren Part III: The Middle East Today  8 The Helsinki process in the Middle East -Gershon Baskin & Hanna Siniora 9 The Future of Arms Control in the Middle East  - Bilal Saab 10 The Middle East and the Helsinki Process – Mike Yaffe 11 Civil Society Dialogues and Middle East Regional Security – Peter Jones  Part IV: Possible Futures 12 A Helsinki Process for the Middle East – Patricia Lewis & Karim Kamel Conclusion – Chen Kane

Biography

Dr. Chen Kane is Middle East projects manager at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Dr. Kane is the author of numerous publications and the founder of the Middle East Next Generation Network. Dr. Kane held research positions at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Egle Murauskaite is Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. She specializes in trends of sensitive technology transfers and interdisciplinary research on other nuclear proliferation challenges, with the focus on the Middle East and South Asia.

This collection offers a number of intriguing options for establishing a regional process for arms control and regional security dialogue in the Middle East. To assess the options for moving forward on a security process in the region, the authors of the book’s essays draw on the Helsinki Process, which began in 1972 as a forum for NATO and Warsaw Pact countries to discuss several groups of issues in Europe, including security.
-KELSEY DAVENPORT, Arms Control Today

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