Critical Issues Facing the Middle East: Security, Politics and Economics

PART I: THEORETICAL OVERVIEW Proliferation, Asymmetric War, and the Contemporary Threat Environment; S.Blank PART II: MIDDLE EAST CASE STUDIES Continuity and Change in Israeli Strategic Thinking: Reflections in the Wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom; A.Cohen Iran at the Strategic Crossroads; R.Takeyh Syrian WMD Programs in Context; M.Jouejati Syrian Weapons of Mass Destruction; A.Hashim A.Q. Khan, Proliferation Networks, and the Nuclear Slippery Slope; C.Clary Saudi Arabia in the 21st Century: A New Security Calculus?; J.A.Russell Saudi Arabia: The Nuclear Conundrum; G.Segell Tracking and Assessing Nuclear Issues in Open Sources: The Case of Libya; W.Bowen PART III: POLICY IMPLICATIONS Iraq and Libya: Nonproliferation through Regime Change or Change in a Regime?; R.Litwak Counterproliferation vs. Nonproliferation in the Middle East after Saddam: Lessons from Iraq and Libya; M.Friend A Demand Side Strategy for Regional Security and Nonproliferation in the Persian Gulf; M.Kraig & R.Kahwaji Threat Reduction and the Middle East; R.Gottemoeller