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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword by Richard C. Leone -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Elements of the Arms Trade and Patterns of Proliferation -- Chapter 2 Arms Transfers and Regional Security -- Chapter 3 Getting Down to Cases -- Chapter 4 Assessing Supply-Side Arms Control -- Chapter 5 Regional Measures to Reduce Demand for Armaments -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications for U.S. Policy -- Appendix A Mapping Security Complexes -- Appendix B The Arms Transfer Data Set -- Appendix C Conflict Scaling and Path Analysis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

THIS PAPER TAKES A FRESH LOOK AT THE ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE (ABM) TREATY AND THE ISSUE OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE (BMD) IN LIGHT OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR, THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION AND, WITH IT, THE DEMISE OF THE SOVIET THREAT. IT SUGGESTS THAT DEPLOYMENT OF LIMITED BMD SHOULD TAKE PLACE ONLY WITHIN A FRAMEWORK OF RUSSIAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL-MILITARY CO-OPERATION, INCLUDING A MODIFIED BUT STILL ACTIVE ABM TREATY. IT CONCLUDES THAT THE U.S. SHOULD PURSUE WITH THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION A PROPOSAL TO DEPLOY BETWEEN 250 AND 300 LONG-RANGE, GROUND-BASED, NON-NUCLEAR BALLISTIC MISSILE INTERCEPTORS WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, AND SHOULD ABANDON EFFORTS TO PLACE INTERCEPTORS IN SPACE.