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Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East and North Africa [1]

MENARA Papers [2]

Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East and North Africa

[3]
Authors:
Erzsébet N. Rózsa [4]
29/11/2018

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is both the source of concern about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the driving force pushing for multilateral arms control. While most states in the region are parties to – or have signed, but not ratified – the multilateral WMD-related arms control treaties, the few outstanding cases provide a certain embeddedness for the region in the global order. Yet they also reveal the multidimensional asymmetry between regional and extra-territorial actors, the haves and have-nots, in both weapons programmes and civilian capabilities. The case studies of the unacknowledged Israeli nuclear arsenal, the Iranian nuclear programme and the Syrian chemical weapons programme demonstrate the close relationship and interaction between the global and the regional levels. In the absence of a regional security architecture, the Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) group has been the only – temporarily – successful exercise, while negotiations on the Middle Eastern WMD-free zone have been postponed indefinitely.

menara_wp_24.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Rome, IAI, November 2018, 22 p.
  • In:
    MENARA Papers [2]
  • Issue

    Working Papers 24

Table of contents

Introduction
1. Regional vs Extra-Territorial Actors: The MENA as a Penetrated Regional System
2. Haves vs Have-Nots
3. The Civilian Use of Nuclear Energy
4. Interaction between the Different WMD Categories
5. The Nearly Fifty-Year-Old Proposal of Cooperative Security: The Middle East Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone/WMD-Free Zone (ME NWFZ/WMDFZ)
6. The Regional Provoking the Global: The Iranian Nuclear Programme > Deal > Then What?
7. The Regional Provoking the Global: Chemical Weapons Use in Syria Triggered International Action
8. The Global Blocking the Regional: The Unacknowledged Israeli Nuclear Capability
9. Missiles, the Non-Negotiable Subject
Conclusion
References


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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c28/weapons-mass-destruction-middle-east-and-north-africa [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/menara-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/menara_wp_24.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/erzsebet-n-rozsa