Confidence building measures in the Middle East
By: edited by Gabriel Ben-Dor and David B. Dewitt
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780429039287
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign relations; Confidence and security building measures (International relations); Conflit israélo-arabe; Relations extérieures; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Government; International; International Relations; General; Diplomatic relations
Description: Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were pioneered in Europe at the height of the Cold War. The immediate goal of such measures is to create enough trust between parties in international conflicts to avoid mutually unfavorable - sometimes dangerous - outcomes due to misunderstandings. The long-term goal of CBMs is to move the contending parties closer to a resolution of their more fundamental differences. Such measures were successful in Europe, some say, because the situation was relatively stable and the parties were motivated to maintain peaceful relations. In this book, leading Middle East scholars and international security specialists assess whether confidence building measures can be applied in a region where the various factions have not yet decided that peaceful coexistence is a desirable goal. Indeed, in some cases, the respective parties refuse to recognize the other's right to exist. The contributors explore the various components of successful CBM agreements - such as open communication, arms control initiatives, verification and monitoring programs, and conflict resolution protocols - and assess how successful such incremental steps might be in the Middle East. The Israelis and the Palestinians are currently trying to implement CBMs, and this volume provides a critical perspective on those historic initiatives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-388).
Table of contents: title: Confidence building measures in the Middle East / Gabriel Ben-Dor and David B. Dewitt; title: The Palestinians and confidence building measures in the Arab-Israeli conflict : the implications of statelessness / Rex Brynen; title: Confidence and security building : the Israeli domestic dimension / Alan Dowty; title: Confidence building measures and Israeli security concerns / Mark A. Heller; title: The role of extremist political groups in the context of confidence building between the Israelis and Palestinians / Noemi Gal-Or; title: Reflections on confidence building in an intricate regional "security complex"; title: the Middle East / Gideon Gera; title: Israel and Syria : the problem of confidence / Gideon Gera; title: Jordan and the question of confidence building : the politics of ambivalence / Emile Sahliyeh; title: Confidence building and dilemmas of cooperation : the Egyptian-Israeli experiment / Janice Gross Stein; title: The United States and the Arab-Israeli peace process / Bernard Reich; title: Russia's role in peacemaking and confidence building in the Middle East : present and future / Victor A. Kremenyuk; title: The evolution of arms control in the Middle East / Keith R. Krause; title: Can the media mediate? : mass-mediated diplomacy in the Middle East / Gabriel Weimann; title: Towards a confidence transformational dynamic / Howard Adelman; title: Confidence building and the peace process in the Middle East / Gabriel Ben-Dor and David B. Dewitt.