WMD Arms Control in the Middle East Prospects, Obstacles and Options

• Main Author: Muller, Harald
• Format: Book eBook
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2015; Taylor and Francis; Ashgate; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Ashgate Plus Series in International Relations and Politics
• Subjects: Arms control; Arms control > Middle East; EU Non-Proliferation Consortium; Europe; Europe > Foreign relations > Middle East; Foreign Policy; Foreign relations; Government policy; Middle East; Middle East Politics; Middle East > Foreign relations > Europe; Middle East > Military policy; Military policy; Political science; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Weapons of mass destruction; Weapons of mass destruction > Government policy > Middle East
• ISBN: 1134770448; 9781134770441; 1472435931; 9781472435934; 9781472435958; 147243594X; 1472435958; 9781472435941; 1134770510; 9781134770519
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315546988

The Middle East is a hot spot of proliferation and it is the world region that witnessed the most frequent and severe employment of chemical weapons since the end of World War I. Notwithstanding, not a single arms control regime concerning weapons of mass destruction (WMD) covers the region as a whole. This volume, written under the auspices of the EU Consortium for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, determines the current state of diplomatic efforts to establish a WMD free zone in the Middle East. In doing so, it provides insights into central actors' conflicting political positions, thereby explaining the stalemate of efforts to negotiate a WMD-free zone.