Constructing Regional Security: The Role of Arms Transfers, Arms Control, and Reassurance

✍ Scribed by William J. Durch (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book William Durch examines conventional weapons proliferation since World War II, the role of arms transfers in fueling regional conflict, and prospects for curbing the global arms trade. Noting that supply side arms control efforts, which seek to constrain the companies and countries that produce and distribute major conventional weapons, have a poor international track record, Durch argues for a broader approach that tries to get at the demand side of the equation. Addressing the political and regional dynamics that impel arms acquisitions, he looks at how arms control might be combined with confidence and security-building measures to contain demand, and how value-based arms trade control measures like 'codes of conduct' could be implemented in stepwise fashion consistent with US national interests in regional stability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Elements of the Arms Trade and Patterns of Proliferation....Pages 7-59
Arms Transfers and Regional Security....Pages 61-104
Getting Down to Cases....Pages 105-145
Assessing Supply-Side Arms Control....Pages 147-173
Regional Measures to Reduce Demand for Armaments....Pages 175-214
Conclusions and Implications for U.S. Policy....Pages 215-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-368

✦ Subjects

Science, general