This book focuses on the Middle East arms control process as it unfolded during the years 19921995, as part of the multilateral track of the ArabIsraeli peace process initiated in Madrid, October 1991. This was the story of a regional process in the making: from the very concept of arms control as applied to the region, through the innovative regional forum and format for discussion that was devised for the talks, to the dynamics of the talks and the question of Egypt s position within this novel regional setting. The result was that what seemed at the outset to be a most likely unpromising...