Arms control-Middle East -- Weapons of mass destruction-Middle East

Indeks : p.227 - 230 ; p.209 - 226 ; This book assesses, in detail, the accuracy of predictions, and perceptions, about a possible military threat from the Southern Mediterranean (Muslim) world, and their impact on NATO and the EU's political and military posture. As counter-proliferation is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central alament of several major international conflicts in the first decades of the twenty-first dentury. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the past decade has been the extraordinary diffusion of war-making capabilities from the developed North to the developing South. In the eyes of some proliferant states, possessing nuclear, biologic and chemical (NBC) weapons would not only add to their regional stature, but would also offer an asymmetrical counter to the West's massive superiority in conventional foces.