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Armed Forces in the Middle East: Politics and Strategy, Edited by Barry Rubin & Thomas Keaney
The armed forces have long been one of the Middle East's most important institutions. The region's armies have frequently seized political power and have always had a powerful influence on government policy. Every country in the region devotes a relatively large proportion of its resources for arms purchases and military spending. The high level of internal disorder and international friction or wars have also made the armed forces extraordinarily central to the political solution in different nations and to the general life of the region.
This volume examines the area's leading armed forces and their role in both military and political affairs. Among the armed forces specifically examined in this volume are those of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Turkey. It considers their missions, doctrine, training, equipment and effectiveness as fighting forces, and the relations between the armed forces and their respective governments.
268 pp., published 2002.
£39.50/ $57.50 hardcover
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US Allies in a Changing World
The book is a collection of papers from a November 1998 international conference sponsored by the BESA Center and the Foreign Policy Institute at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. Edited by Barry Rubin and Thomas Keaney. This volume explores the development of the Unites States' alliances from the American perspective, as well as from that of its most important allies - Britain, Germany, the Gulf States, Israel, Turkey, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book considers how these relationships have changed in the tumultuous international environment of the past half-century, as well as looking at their present situations and the likely future direction of each country's link to the United States.
294 pp.
Published Nov. 2000
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Democratic Societies and Their Armed Forces: Israel in Comparative Context
Papers from a June 1998 international research workshop at the BESA Center, involving Israel's best military and academic strategists and sociologists, along with more than one dozen experts from the US, Canada, Germany, France, England, Italy, India, Hungary and other countries.
This book presents an overview of current transformations in societal-military relations in the western world. Within the context of that framework, it then explores their specific manifestations in Israel. The result is a comprehensive study of a process, which, in Israel as elsewhere, already affects the very fabric of a vital sphere of public life. Edited by Stuart A. Cohen.
294 pp. Published Apr. 2000
$62.50 hardcover
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The Politics and Economics of Defence Industries
This book provides a comprehensive and policy-relevant analysis of the complex web of contemporary economic trends, political developments and strategic considerations that are shaping the contours of the new post-Cold War world market for weaponry. Edited by Efraim Inbar and Benzion Zilberfarb (former director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Finance), the book considers the interplay between new trends in the arms business and the global security environment.
240 pp. Published April 1998
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Israeli Strategy after Desert Storm: Lessons of the Second Gulf War
In this volume, Maj. Gen. (res.) Aharon Levran provides an incisive investigation of the Second Gulf War and its strategic implications. He examines the Iraqi missile strikes against Israel and Israel's response, and considers the role of air power in winning the war.
184 pp. Published April 1997
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The National Security of Small States in a Changing World
Collected essays from an April 1995 international conference cosponsored by the BESA Center and the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations of the Hebrew University, considering the relationship between small states and their large allies, in comparative perspective. In this volume, edited by Efraim Inbar & Gabriel Sheffer, scholars from a variety of disciplines address the following essential questions: what are the linkages between systematic features and the small states' environment; does the emerging international system augur well for small states; what can be expected of allies, big and small; what are the interactions between small states and regional organizations; what national strategies best serve the precarious survival of small states; and what are the appropriate defence policies in the changing technological and political environment?
232 pp. Published June 1997
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Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East
This volume is a special issue of the international journal Terrorism and Political Violence. This volume, edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman & Efraim Inbar, provides an in-depth political analysis of religious radicalism in the Greater Middle East--a recently defined area encompassing the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. The contributors represent various conceptual perspectives within the framework of political science, including international relations, Middle East studies and political sociology.
272 pp. Published Feb. 1997
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Middle Eastern Security: Prospects for an Arms Control Regime
A collection of essays from a BESA Center international conference examining the obstacles to an effective arms control regime in the Middle East and assesses the prospects of overcoming them. The first part of the book examines the role of the extra-regional actors: the United States, Western Europe and Russia. The second section analyzes the main issues on the arms control agenda: the proliferation of chemical and nuclear weapons and the spread of ballistic missiles. The book concludes by exploring the dynamics of the region and discusses the domestic aspects of strategic doctrines, the prospects of establishing confidence-building measures and the international context of a Middle Eastern arms control regime. Edited by Efraim Inbar and Shmuel Sandler.
Published May 1995
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