Constructing regional security : the role of arms transfers, arms control, and reassurance / William J. Durch.

"A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-353) and index.

Foreword / Richard C. Leone -- Ch. 1. Elements of the Arms Trade and Patterns of Proliferation -- Ch. 2. Arms Transfers and Regional Security -- Ch. 3. Getting Down to Cases -- Ch. 4. Assessing Supply-Side Arms Control -- Ch. 5. Regional Measures to Reduce Demand for Armaments -- Ch. 6. Conclusions and Implications for U.S. Policy -- App. A. Mapping Security Complexes -- App. B. The Arms Transfer Data Set -- App. C. Conflict Scaling and Path Analysis.

"In this book William Durch examines conventional weapons proliferation since World War II, the role of arms transfers in fueling regional conflict, and prospects for curbing the global arms trade. Noting that supply-side arms control efforts, which seek to constrain the companies and countries that produce and distribute major conventional weapons, have a poor international track record, Durch argues for a broader approach that tries to get at the demand side of the equation.

Addressing the political and regional dynamics that impel arms acquisitions, he looks at how arms control might be combined with confidence and security-building measures to contain demand, and how value-based arms trade control measures like "codes of conduct" could be implemented in stepwise fashion consistent with U.S. national interests in regional stability."--BOOK JACKET.