Constructing Regional Security
Subtitle: The Role of Arms Transfers, Arms Control, and Reassurance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312236458
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; Arms trade; International relations; Peace studies; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Arms Control And Disarmament; Regional Security Issues; Political Science; History - Military / War; Politics/International Relations; Military - General; Military Science; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Science / International Security; Arms control; Arms transfers; Military assistance; National security; United States
First sentence: For nearly a half-century, the Cold War's major contestants and their principal allies poured conventional arms into the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in a competition to reinforce friends, outflank enemies, and make a few francs, pounds, rubles, or dollars while doing so.
Description: "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 U.S. national interests in regional stability."--BOOK JACKET.