Recently added articles from Middle East Policy:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; Joyce, Anne ... A significant milestone was passed this month: the sixtieth anniversary of the Jewish triumph and the Palestinian catastrophe. In most years, only the birth of Israel is noted in the American media, except by fringe periodicals like this one. This year, however, the nakba was marked as ...
Hamas and the two-state solution: villain, victim or missing ingredient?(Broadcast transcript)
Jun 22, 2008; Zuhur, Sherifa ... The following is an edited transcript of the fifty-second in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on Friday, April 11, 2008, in the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., presiding. ...
Interview: Fatma Khafagy.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; Gaess, Roger ... Dr. Khafagy is a women's rights activist in Egypt, where she currently works as a policy expert for the German Cooperation Agency. Prior to that she was a legal/policy expert for the European Commission Project on the Economic Role of Women in the Mediterranean Region and also headed the ...
Afghanistan's security: political process, state-building and narcotics.
Jun 22, 2008; Aras, Bulent ... Interest in the security of Afghanistan is largely dominated by fear that the country's instability will trigger conflicts in neighboring regions from Kashmir to Chechnya. It is often argued that the key to providing security is to fortify the U.S.-led international troop positions in ...
Shiism and ethnic politics in Iraq.
Jun 22, 2008; Noorbaksh, Mehdi ... Iraq is a country in which ethnicity plays a crucial role in politics. The two predominant sects of Islam, the Shiite and the Sunni, and the two major ethnic groups, the Arabs and the Kurds, have always been part of Iraq's national composition. Iraqi Sunnis dominated the politics of Iraq ...
Lubricated with oil: Iran-China relations in a changing world.
Jun 22, 2008; Dorraj, Manochehr ... China and Iran are emerging powers with increasingly significant political and economic relations that have regional and global dimensions. In this article, we set out to explore the historical roots, evolution and development of this relationship with a particular emphasis on the period ...
The Caspian Sea: rivalry and cooperation.
Jun 22, 2008; Ghafouri, Mahmoud ... The Caspian Sea is estimated to be the world's third largest reservoir of oil and natural gas after the Persian Gulf and Russia. But, since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991, its rich resources have generated disagreement among the littoral states (Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan ...
The gulf sovereign wealth funds: myths and reality.
Jun 22, 2008; Seznec, Jean-Francois ... The financial world is abuzz with the issue of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), especially those that have become swollen by oil revenues in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. There are estimates from highly respected banks and consultants that put the wealth of the Gulf SWFs at about $1.5 trillion, ...
Combating extremism: a brief overview of Saudi Arabia' s approach.
Jun 22, 2008; Ansary, Abdullah F. ... Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries where the fight against terrorism and extremism has yielded real success. This success cannot be explained only by the effectiveness of its security measures, but also by its softer approach in tackling radical ideologies. (1) Although religious ...
Dubai: the security dimensions of the region's premier free port.
Jun 22, 2008; Davidson, Christopher ... Dubai is a remarkable success story. From its origins as a small fishing and pearling community, the emirate has gone from strength to strength, having established itself as the premier trading entrepot of the Arabian Gulf and, in more recent years, having boomed into a massive metropolis ...
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Sullivan, Antony T. ... The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John L. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 484 pages. $26.00, hardcover. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is one of the most important books written during the past three decades. Its authors, ...
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Mattair, Thomas R. ... Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation, by Barbara Slavin. St. Martin's Press, 2007.258 pages. $24.95, hardcover. Barbara Slavin has written a thoughtful book based in large part on her personal experiences as a reporter in Iran and ...
Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies: A Reference Guide.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Long, David E. ... Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies: A Reference Guide, by Joseph A. Kechichian. Lynn Reiner Publishers, 2008. 555 pages. $76.00, hardcover. It is difficult to tell how much of the misinformation published about government and politics in the Arab world is the result of ...
Beyond the Facade: Political Reform in the Arab World.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Chomiak, Laryssa ... Beyond the Facade: Political Reform in the Arab World, edited by Marina Ottaway and Julia Choucair-Vizoso. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008. 295 pages. $22.95. Few topics engage academics, policy makers and development practitioners more than the puzzle of ...
Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Kim, Lami ... Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East, by Dietrich Jung, ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 208 pages, $69.55, hardcover. In the lively debate on democratization in the Arab Middle East, orientalists and modernization theorists have heavily ...
Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Farag, Aziz Fahmy ... Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West, by Anthony Pagden. Random House, 2008. 575 pages. $35.00, hardcover. Samuel Huntington's theory of a clash of civilizations pitting Islam against Christianity was much criticized in the 1990s but became popular after ...