t international concern. Aaron Karp adds that they also remain one of the least promising areas for negotiated restraint. However, he also adds it is becoming increasingly clear that military confrontation in the region is not what is once was. Many serious security problems face the Middle East today, but the danger of major war is probably lower than at any time in modern memory. Even the dangers of WMD, still an overwhelming consideration in the Middle East, pose considerable more urgent threats in South Asia and the Korean Peninsula.
Despite these changes, military dangers remain serious, particularly in relation to Iran, Iraq, and Libya. The mobilization crisis triggered by Iraq's dispatch of troops to the Kuwaiti border in September 1994 illustrated the continuing relevance of conventional forces. Confrontations betw
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