00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002914 20221025093805 0010-0520002914 221025################|##########|#eng## 714656062 eng 327.174 327.174 DOK c Dokos,Thanos P. Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction : NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle Est / Thanos P.Dokos London : Routledge, 2008 viii, 230p. : : illus, ; 24cm. 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. Arms control-Middle East Weapons of mass destruction-Middle East 10636/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10637/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10637/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10636/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10636/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10637/MKRI-P/XI-2008