The persian gulf's collective-security mirage

Middle East Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 77-88

  Russell, Richard L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 31144437768     PISSN: 10611924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4967.2005.00226.x     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. James A. Russell, "Searching for a Post-Saddam Regional Security Architecture," Middle East Review of International Affairs 1. no. 1 (March 2003), p. 33.
2. Joseph McMillan, Richard Sokolsky, and Andrew C. Winner, "Toward a New Regional Security Architecture," The Washington Quarterly 26, no. 3 (Summer 2003), p. 167.
3. Russell, "Searching for a Post-Saddam Regional Security Architecture," p. 35.
4. Russell, "Searching for a Post-Saddam Regional Security Architecture," p. 35. Ibid.
5. Kenneth M. Pollack, "Securing the Gulf," Foreign Affairs 82, no. 4 (July/August 2003), p. 12.
6. Ray Takeyh and Steven A. Cook, "America Has a Golden Chance to Tame Iran," Financial Times, 14 October 2004.
7. For a tempered analysis of the potential relevance of the OSCE experience to the Middle East, see Craig G. Dunkerley, "Considering Security Amidst Strategic Change: The OSCE Experience," Middle East Policy XI, no. 3 (Fall 2004).
8. Graham E. Fuller, The Youth Factor: The New Demographics of the Middle East and the Implications of U.S. Policy, Analysis Paper no. 3 (Washington, DC: Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution, June 2003), p. 2.
9. Inis Claude has done the most expert analysis of collective security, although his work regrettably has not gotten the attention of today's collective security advocates. See Claude's Power and International Relations (New York: Random House, 1962)
10. and Swords into Plowshares: The Problems and Progress of International Organization (New York: Random House, 1971).
11. Michael D. Yaffe, "The Gulf and a New Middle East Security System," Middle East Policy XI, no. 3 (Fall 2004), p. 121.
12. For Iran's population, see Central Intelligence Agency, World Fact Book (Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2004) available at http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2119.html.
13. International Institute for Strategic Studies, Military Balance 2004-2005 (London: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 124-125.
14. Central Intelligence Agency, World Fact Book.
15. Richard L. Kugler, "U.S. Defense Strategy and Force Planning," Chapter Five in Richard D. Sokolsky (ed.), The United States and the Persian Gulf: Reshaping Security Strategy for the Post-Containment Era (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2003), p. 92.
16. Russell, "Searching for a Post-Saddam Regional Security Architecture," p. 32
17. James Fallows, "Blind into Baghdad," The Atlantic Monthly (January/February 2004), p. 74.
18. For a pre-war argument for preserving the Iraqi army in the course of the war while vigorously destroying the pillars of Saddam's regime in the Republican Guard and the Special Republican Guard, see Richard L. Russell, "War and the Iraq Dilemma: Facing Harsh Realties," Parameters XXXII, no. 3 (Autumn 2002), p. 54.
19. Military Balance 2004-2005, pp. 302-304.
20. Jeffrey White, "The New Iraqi Army: Problems and Prospects," Policy Watch, no. 771, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 8 July 2003.
21. Maj. Gen. Paul Easton, commander, Coalition Military Assistance Training Team, "Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing," U.S. Department of Defense, 21 January 2004. The responsibilities for recruiting, training, and equipping the Iraqi military with the turn over of power to Iraq's transition government has been passed to the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq.
22. Central Intelligence Agency, World Fact Book.
23. Military Balance 2004-2005, pp. 71 and 122.
24. Military Balance 2004-2005, Ibid., pp. 72 and 123.
25. For a thoughtful and provocative examination of pressures on post-Saddam Iraq to turn to nuclear weapons, see Andrew Flibbert, "After Saddam: Regional Insecurity, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Proliferation in Postwar Iraq," Political Science Quarterly 118, no. 4 (Winter 2003-2004).
26. Simon Henderson, The New Pillar: Conservative Arab Gulf States and U.S. Strategy (Washington, DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003), p. 73.
27. For a treatment of ballistic-missile defenses in the region, see Richard L. Russell, "Swords and Shields: Ballistic Missiles and Defenses in the Middle East and South Asia," Orbis 46, no. 3 (Summer 2002).