Middle East Review of International Affairs

Volume 8, Number 3, September 2004

 

Israel and the WMD Threat: Lessons for Europe
by Cameron Brown ^*

 

Abstract

Having faced a growing threat from the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) for the past several decades, Israel has been forced to make counter-proliferation a top national defense priority. ¹ It has invested billions of dollars in developing a multi-layered national defense strategy that is arguably the most highly developed of any country on earth. As such, Israel’s experience in this field can offer several important lessons (from its mistakes and successes) for European countries that are only now coming under the range of several rogue countries’ long-range missile systems, not to mention the growing threat of WMD terrorism

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Note *: Cameron S. Brown is the Assistant Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. He is most recently the author of “Wanting to Have Their Cake and Their Neighbor’s Too: Azerbaijani attitudes towards Karabakh and Iranian Azerbaijan,” Middle East Journal, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Autumn 2004) and “Israel’s 2003 Elections,” Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2003). Back

Note 1: In this paper, non-proliferation refers to the policies and efforts aimed at stopping other countries from acquiring WMD, and counter-proliferation refers to the policies enacted to oppose the potential use of WMD. Back