Middle East Strategic Balance, 2003-2004 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845190025 ISBN 13: 9781845190026

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The Middle East Strategic Balance [formerly the Middle East Military Balance] is prepared annually by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, to provide an authoritative and indispensable guide to strategic developments and military capabilities in the Middle East. Governments, the media, and researchers pay close attention to the data and analysis, which offer a comprehensive insightful assessment of the complex Middle East strategic environment. The 2003-2004 Strategic Balance provides an objective analysis of the strategic factors and events shaping the region through a rich collection of essays, together with a country by country overview of the region's military forces, including the major changes to the orders of battle, and a survey of personnel, weapons and equipment holdings, non-conventional capabilities and ballistic missiles, and other key components of military force structures.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Shai Feldman is Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament, the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He has written extensively on nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control, US policy in the region, American-Israeli relations, and the Middle East peace process.

Review:

“Middle East Strategic Balance is a ‘must read’ for any scholar interested in an assessment of the distribution of military power in the Middle East.”  —Dr Geoffrey Kemp, Nixon Center Washington

“Middle East Strategic Balance offers readers a comprehensive, insightful assessment of the complex and dynamic Middle East strategic environment.”  —Ambassador Samuel Lewis

“The Jaffee Center’s Middle East Strategic Balance is an indispensable resource for all who deal with the Middle East or with its role in global politics.”  —Professor Graham Alison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

“An informative collection of articles and military data authored and collected by experts at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS). This book is rich with useful data, demonstrates the security of Israel, and the close coordination of U.S. and Israeli strategic policies.”  —American Reference Books Annual 39th Volume 2008

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1845190025
• ISBN 13: 9781845190026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Feldman Shai, Shapir Yiftah S