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THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF SMALL
STATES IN A CHANGING WORLD

The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies is dedicated to the study of Middle East peace and security, in particular the national security and foreign policy of Israel. A non-partisan and independent institute, the BESA Center is named in memory of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, whose efforts in pursuing peace laid the cornerstone for future conflict resolution in the Middle East.

Since its founding in 1991 by Dr Thomas O. Hecht of Montreal, the BESA Center has become one of the most dynamic Israeli research institutions. It has developed cooperative relationships with strategic study centres throughout the world, from Ankara to Washington and from London to Seoul. Among its research staff are some of Israel's best and brightest academic and military minds. BESA Center publications and policy recommendations are read by senior Israeli decision-makers, in military and civilian life, by academicians, the press and the broader public.

The BESA Center makes its research available to the international community through three publication series: BESA Security and Policy Studies, BESA Colloquia on Strategy and Diplomacy and BESA Studies in International Security. The Center also sponsors conferences, symposia, workshops, lectures and briefings for international and local audiences.

Our current research foci are:

Deterrence and Regional Security Israel Defense Forces of the Future Israeli Public Opinion on National Security IsraeliTurkish Strategic Ties Mideast Water Resources Middle East Arms Control Military Industries US-Israel Relations

Palestinian Positions and Factions in the Peace Process Politicians and the Use of Force Proliferation and Weapons of Mass Destruction Regional Security Rgimes Space-Based Weaponry Strategic Options in the Peace Process

THE NATIONAL SECURITY
OF SMALL STATES
IN A CHANGING WORLD

Edited by

EFRAIM INBAR

Bar-Ilan University

and

GABRIEL SHEFFER

Hebrew University

First published 1997 by Frank Cass Publishers

Published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 1997 Contributors

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

The national security of small states in a changing world

1. National security 2. States, Small Foreign relations

I. Inbar, Efiraim, 1947 II. Sheffer, Gabriel

327.101

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

ISBN 13: 978-0-714-64339-7 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-714-64786-9 (hbk)

Typeset by Regent Typesetting, London

Ann-Sofie Dahl, a specialist in Swedish defense and foreign policy, is Senior Lecturer at the Swedish War College, Depart-ment for Strategic Studies. Among her works, in English and Swedish, are Political Use of International Law (Lund: Diaglos, 1987), Den Moraliska Stormakten: En Studie av Social-demokratins Internationella Aktivism (Timbro: 1991), Nilsson (editor), Sveriges Skerhetspolitiska Vgval (Stockholm: Folk och Frsvsr, 1994).

Efraim Inbar is Associate Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Director of its Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. His books include War and Peace in Israeli Politics: Labor Party Positions on National Security (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1991), Mideast Security: Prospects for Arms Control (London: Frank Cass, 1995) (co-edited with Shmuel Sandler), Regional Security Regimes: Israel and its Neighbors (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995) (editor), and Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1996).

Ashok Kapur is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Among his countless writings are International Nuclear Proliferation: Multilateral Diplomacy and Regional Aspects (New York: Praeger, 1979), Pakistan's Nuclear Development (London: Croom Helm, 1987), and Pakistan in Crisis (London: Routledge, 1991).

Efraim Karsh is Professor of War Studies and Chairman of the Department of Mediterranean Studies at King's College, London, as well as editor of the academic journal Israel Affairs, published by Frank Cass, Among his writings are Neutrality and Small States (London: Routledge, 1988), The IranIraq War (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1989) and Peace in the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1994).

Bjrn Mller is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Peace and Conflict Research, Copenhagen. He is the editor of the journal NOD and Conversion, the international research newsletter of the Center for Peace and Conflict Research, and author of a number of works, including Resolving the Security Dilemma in Europe: The German Debate on Non-Offense Defense (London: Brassey's, 1991), and Common Security and Non-Offense Defense: A Neo-Realist Perspective (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1992).

Gabriel Sheffer is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialises in issues of political leadership and ethnic politics. Among his books are Modern Diasporas in International Politics (New York: St Martin's Press, 1986), Innovative Leadership in International Politics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993), and Moshe Sharrett: A Biography of a Political Moderate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).

Raimo Vyrynen is the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Professor of Government and International Studies at Notre Dame University. Among his many works are The Quest for Peace (Paris: International Social Science Council, 1987), New Directions in Conflict Theory (London: Sage, 1991), and Military Industrialization and Economic Development (New York: UN Institute for Disarmament Research, 1992).

David Vital is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Among the founders of the small states literature, he has written countless books on a number of different subjects, including The Inequality of States: A Study of the Small Power in International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon, 1967), The Survival of Small States: Studies in Small Power and Great Power Conflicts (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), Zionsim: The Crucial Phase (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987), and The Future of the Jews (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

Equality among nations has been exalted as an ideal and an international norm since the First World War. The Wilsonian view of international relations, which influenced the diplomatic outcome of the war to end all wars, contributed to the fragmentation of empires into smaller states and the pursuit of national self-determination; the establishment of Finland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and many of the Arab states was a result of these developments. This trend continued after the Second World War as India and Israel gained independence, and it gathered momentum in the 1960s and 1970s as the decolonisation process continued to unfold. Unable to resist the demands for self-determination, and nourishing second thoughts about the feasibility of owning overseas possessions, western European powers grudgingly let loose the peoples under their control in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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