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Considering Security Amidst Strategic Change: The OSCE Experience

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Lawrence G. Potter has prepared an important and useful introductory exploration of the subject of confidence-building in the Gulf context in his chapter
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See Peter Jones' treatment of past discussion of such measures in the SCRS context in his 1998 SIPRI paper "Towards a Regional Security Regime in the Middle East -Issues and Options." Lawrence G. Potter has prepared an important and useful introductory exploration of the subject of confidence-building in the Gulf context in his chapter "Confidence Building Measures in the Persian Gulf" in the volume he has edited with Gary Sick: The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion (1997). See as well their follow-up volume of essays: Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles and the Search for Consensus (2002).
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