Countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction NATO and EU options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the pas...

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Main Author: Dokos, Thanos P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Routledge 2008
Series:Contemporary security studies
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Table of Contents:
  • The emerging security environment in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
  • Recent developments in arms control and non-proliferation
  • Assessing the proliferation threat
  • WMD terrorism
  • WMD capabilities of selected countries in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
  • WMD proliferation: threats and challenges to Western security and NATO's response
  • Basic principles of U.S. Counterproliferation strategy
  • The EU's response to WMD proliferation
  • Conclusions.