Constructing Regional Security: The Role of Arms Transfers, Arms Control, and Reassurance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312236458)

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 US national interests in regional stability.

Author: W. Durch
ISBN-10: 031223645X
ISBN-13: 9780312236458
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2001
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.64w x 1.17d