Author : James Macintosh
Publisher : The Division
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Confidence Building in the Arms Control Process by : James Macintosh
Download or read book Confidence Building in the Arms Control Process written by James Macintosh and published by The Division. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confidence building as an approach to international security management has traditionally focused on developing agreements featuring well-known confidence building measures, as opposed to the activity of confidence building itself. This report begins with a critical review of traditional confidence building ideas which highlights some problems that continue to undermine conventional treatments of confidence building. It then discusses in some detail the essential elements that comprise the transformation view of confidence building. That view shifts attention away from operational measures towards the processes associated with their development and application. According to that view, confidence building is a distinct activity undertaken by policy makers with the minimum intention of improving some aspects of a traditionally antagonistic security relationship through security policy co-ordination and co-operation. It requires interaction among officials and experts from participating states when conditions are supportive of change.