Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 2000

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 2000

THE LIMITS OF STATE POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
September 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION WITH THE ONSET OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, many Middle Eastern countries continue to face several socioeconomic and political problems. Some of these problems pause a challenge to the institutional foundation of the states...

TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY AND JERUSALEM: TOWARD A SOCIETAL CONSTRUCTION OF FOREIGN POLICY.
September 22, 2000... Stones, figs and Mount Olive And the ever-betrayed al-Quds hold their breath and listen to the sound of David reciting the psalms of intifada (Berdal Aral) THERE ARE A FAIRLY LIMITED NUMBER of studies dealing with Turkish Foreign Policy...

PHOSPHATE EXPORTS BY JORDAN.
September 22, 2000... PHOSPHATE EXPORTS LONG HAVE dominated Jordanian foreign trade. Jordan is very rich in its phosphate deposits. It was reported that the first discovery of phosphate deposits in Jordan took place as early as 1894. However, scarcity of capital,...

SECTARIANISM AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS IN POSTWAR LEBANON.
September 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION: DEFINING THE SECTARIAN BALANCE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLAR Ernst Haas observed that the term "balance of power" has at least eight separate meanings. [1] The concept of "sectarian balance" is equally elastic and carries a...

Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.(Review)
September 22, 2000... R. Stephen Humphreys. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. 272 pages + notes and index to p. 297. Hardcover $29.95. This book is a refreshing change from the flood...

Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Kathleen Christison. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1999. 370 pages. Hardcover $40.00. Kathleen christison, a former CIA analyst,...

Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Vincent J. Cornell. Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998. 424 pages, 4 maps, 9 figures. Hardcover $50.00, paper $19.95. Vincent Cornell's newest book is the result of twelve...

Scattered like Seeds.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Shaw J. Dallal. Scattered like Seeds. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998. 335 pages. Hardcover $29.95. At the end of 2000, few Americans clearly understood the on-going conflicts between Jews and Palestinians. Although our newspapers...