Product Description: Focusing on the relationship between security and political culture, particularly in the Arab world, this study explores whether the concept of co-operative security can be applied in the Middle East. Bowker argues that the development of security for Israel and its Arab neighbours will depend on a process of building peace between societies, as well as between states...read more

Product Description: In the late 1970s and 1980s, Middle Eastern states spent more than $600 billion expanding their military forces. They acquired thousands of tanks, advanced fighter aircraft, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, and - in some cases - nuclear devices...read more

Product Description: Two Gulf wars and the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict have highlighted the salience of military factors in the Middle East. This book argues, however, that many of the most serious 'security' challenges to Arab states and societies are rooted not in external military threats but in the imperatives of socio-economic development...read more