Regional Security Dialogue in the Middle East ─ Changes, challenges and opportunities

At this time of considerable political turmoil in the Middle East, there is a pressing need to explore alternative frameworks for regional security. The book discusses the Helsinki Process as one potentially relevant historical model to learn from.

The Helsinki Process began in a divided Europe in the early 1970s and, over 40 years, achieved major successes in promoting cooperation between the Warsaw Pact and NATO member states on social, human rights, security, and political issues. In this volume, established Middle East experts, former diplomats, and emerging scholars assess the regional realities from a broad range of perspectives and, with the current momentum for reform across the Middle East, chart a path towards a comprehensive mechanism that could promote long-term regional security.

Providing a gamut of views on regional threat perception and suggesting ways forward for regional peace, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in Politics, the Middle East and Conflict Studies.

Dr. Chen Kane is Middle East projects manager at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Dr. Kane is the author of numerous publications and the founder of the Middle East Next Generation Network. Dr. Kane held research positions at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Egle Murauskaite is Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. She specializes in trends of sensitive technology transfers and interdisciplinary research on other nuclear proliferation challenges, with the focus on the Middle East and South Asia.