There are also lingering suspicions created by years of hostility, isolation, and military rule. It is therefore very encouraging that the states of the region are making major efforts to engage each other in new diplomatic efforts aimed at creating a more cooperative basis for international security in this hemisphere. Other regions in which tensions are rife could profitably review the progress made in Latin America. This event, held in Santiago, Chile, in August 1992, was notable for the dialogue it inspired and for a number of highly informative papers by regional experts on various aspects of the confidence building. In this volume, we present a cross-section of the papers, in excerpted form and translated into English, for a readership in North America and other regions.
American experts cover confidence building in Central America and in the Maritime domain.
Click Here to order a hard copy. Steps designed to reduce bilateral tensions and draw the two countries closer together on the nuclear issues continued through the rest of the decade. In January 1991, India and Pakistan implemented an agreement prohibiting attacks on each other's nuclear facilities. The two countries have continued this process of confidence building, exchanging lists of the facilities to be covered by this agreement and agreeing to inform each other of military exercises well in advance. This domestic arena, according to the author, is the most vital, yet least understood, component of the web of factors that lead to nuclear proliferation.