Confidence Building Measures in the Middle East

Abstract

Part 1 Confidence-building measures in the Middle East, Gabriel Ben-Dor and David B. Dewitt. Part 2 Regional actors - Israel and the Pelestinians: the Palestinians and confidence-building measures in the Arab-Israeli conflict - the implications of statelessness, Rex Brynen confidence and security-building - the Israeli domestic dimension, Alan Dowty confidence-building measures and Israeli security concerns, Mark A. Heller the role of extremist political groups among Palestinians within Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in the context of confidence-building between Israel and the Palestinians, Noemi Gal-Or. Part 3 Regional actors - Arab states: reflections on confidence-building in an intricate regional "security complex" - the Middle East, Gideon Gera Israel and Syria - the problem of confidence, G. Gera Jordan and the question of confidence-building - the politics of ambivalence, Emile Sahliyeh confidence-building to co-ordinate and collaborate - the Egyptian-Israeli experiment, Janice Gross Stein. Part 4 External actors and interactions: the United States and the Arab-Israeli peace process, confidence-building and peace-making, Bernard Reich Russia's role in peace-making and confidence-building in the Middle East - present and future, Victor A. Kremenyuk the evolution of arms control in the Middle East, Keith Krause can the media mediate? - mass-mediated diplomacy in the Middle East, Gabriel Weimann. Postcript: confidence-building in the Middle East - avenues for future research, G. Ben-Dor and D.B. Dewitt.