TY - BOOK AU - DURCH William J TI - Constructing regional security: the role of arms transfer, arms control and reassurance SN - 031223645X (hbk.): PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave KW - ARMS CONTROL KW - ARMS TRANSFERS KW - MILITARY POLICY KW - NATIONAL SECURITY KW - UNITED STATE KW - WORLD POLITICS N2 - This book is divided into two parts: problems and potential solutions. It examines the conventional arms trade of the last half-century, the security problems of developing states and how arms transfers may contribute to them, and case studies of the impact of three perceptions, domestic, politics and state weakness on demand for arms. The other chapters evaluate tools to address these problems supply side arms control and regional confidence and security building measures, and what the people know about the problem and what they know about exinsitng policy tools and their shorcomings to draw implications for U.S government policy ER -