Essays originally presented at a conference held at the Naval Postgraduate School in June 2004.

Proliferation, asymmetric war, and the contemporary threat environment / Stephen Blank -- Continuity and change in Israeli strategic thinking : reflections in the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom / Avner Cohen -- Iran at the strategic crossroads / Ray Takeyh -- Syrian WMD programs in context / Murhaf Jouejati -- Syrian weapons of mass destruction / Ahmed S. Hashim -- A.Q. Khan, proliferation networks, and the nuclear slippery slope / Christopher Clary -- Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century : a new security calculus? / James A. Russell -- Saudi Arabia : the nuclear conundrum / Glen M. Segell -- Tracking and assessing Nuclear issues in open sources : the case of Libya / Wyn Q. Bowen -- Iraq and Libya : nonproliferation through regime change or change in a regime? / Robert S. Litwak -- Counterproliferation versus nonproliferation in the Middle East after Saddam : lessons from Iraq and Libya / Michael Friend -- A demand-side strategy for regional security and nonproliferation in the Persian Gulf / Michael Ryan Kraig and Riad Kahwaji -- Cooperative threat reduction at the next phase / Rose Gottemoeller.