The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change
Author(s): Nora Bensahel (Author), Daniel Byman (Author)
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Publication Date: March 12, 2004
Language: English
Print length: 365 pages
ISBN-10: 0833032909
ISBN-13: 9780833032904
Book Description
This report identifies several important trends that are shaping regional security. It examines traditional security concerns, such as energy security and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as newer challenges posed by political reform, economic reform, civil-military relations, leadership change, and the information revolution. The report concludes by identifying the implications of these trends for U.S. foreign policy.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Offers an up-to-date regional survey that seeks, with considerable success, to integrate many different issues and countries into an overview. Carl Brown
This collection offers an up-to-date regional survey that seeks, with considerable success, to integrate many different issues and countries into an overview… Topics treated include political and economic reform, Middle Eastern oil, and weapons of mass destruction, plus civil-military relations, the information revolution, and the prospects of impending leadership changes in the area. With its regional approach, the book reveals how the issues of WMD, terrorism, U.S support for the status quo versus championing reform, putting Iraq back together, and that hardy perennial-Israel and the Arabs-are all intertwined. U.S. policy, it says, must be ‘flexible and robust’…. Foreign Affairs
From the Inside Flap
Surveys several Middle East security issues and their implications for U.S. foreign policy.
About the Author
Nora Bensahel (Ph.D. Political Science, Stanford University) is a policy analyst at RAND. Research focus includes military strategy, Middle East security, and military coalitions.
Daniel L. Byman (Ph.D., Political Science, M.I.T.) is a policy analyst at RAND whose research interests include modeling ethnic conflict, assessing Middle East politics and security issues, developing countermeasures against terrorism, reevaluating air power theory, and other general issues related to U.S. foreign policy.
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