ABSTRACT
Regional security regimes come in different flavors. They usually emerge from recognition by a group of regional states that they stand to enhance their security by cooperating with one another, either to regulate their own conflicts or to ward off an extra-regional challenger. The post-war regional security regime would be European, not Middle Eastern, and would rest upon British and French power. Perceiving Britain's weakness, Arab nationalists began to imagine their own new post-war regional order––without the British and without the Jews. In effect, the Iranians are seeking to create their own broader regional security regime. The literature on regional security in the Middle East resembles the literature on the "peace process." For Israel, in the meantime, regional relations will take a back seat to its "special relationship" with the United States, its privileged ties to Europe and its burgeoning economic cooperation with East and South Asia.
