Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 2001

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 2001

Guest Editors' Notes.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... SINCE IT'S FOUNDING IN 1979, in the tradition of its founding coeditors, Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (Rahimahu allah), Arab Studies Quarterly has provided a forum for the critique of scholarship, policy and power politics as they relate...

Oil, Sanctions, Debt and the Future.(Iraq)
September 22, 2001... LOOKING AT THE WORLD MAP of oil we find certain facts to have shaped the history of Iraq and its regional context and will continue to do so for a long time to come. At the end of 1999 world oil reserves amounted to 1033 billion barrels of oil...

An Economy in a Debt Trap: Iraqi Debt 1980-2020.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE WILL EXAMINE THREE variables -- war, debt and oil -- in an organic manner in an examination of cause and effect in Iraq during the period 1980-2020. The 1980s began with Iraq recognized as being one of the highly...

The Regional and Domestic Political Consequences of Sanctions Imposed on Iraq, Libya and Sudan.(United Nations Security Council)
September 22, 2001... THIS ARTICLE WILL ASSUME that readers know the background which brought the United Nations Security Council to impose mandatory sanctions on the three countries which are covered in the article. It will focus exclusively on the conclusions...

Foreign Policy By Catharsis: The Failure of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq.
September 22, 2001... TEN YEARS AFTER THE GULF WAR, U.S. policy toward Iraq continues to suffer from an over-reliance on military solutions, an abuse of the United Nations and international law, and a disregard for the human suffering resulting from the policy....

Russian-Iraqi Relations: A Historical and Political Analysis.
September 22, 2001... RUSSIAN (BETWEEN 1917-1991 SOVIET)-Iraqi relations have been generally part and parcel of their relations with the Third World countries and their national liberation movements, particularly Arab nationalism, which for both historical and...

Japan-Iraq Relations: The Perception Gap and Its Influence on Diplomatic Policies.
September 22, 2001... JAPAN'S DIPLOMATIC POLICY TOWARD Iraq is only a dependent variable within its policy toward the Middle East region as a whole. Following the Second World War Japan has been largely influenced by its unique relationship with the United States....

Petition on Behalf of the Children of Iraq Submitted to the United Nations Charging President Bush and U.S. Authorities Actions Constitute Acts of Genocide.
September 22, 2001... EDITOR'S NOTE: In September of 1991 Francis Boyle asked the Coalition to Stop U.S. intervention in the Middle East to submit an Indictment, Complaint and Petition for Relief from Genocide by President George Herbert Walker Bush and the United...

Egypt During the Sadat Years. (Books In Brief).
September 22, 2001... Beattie, Kirk J. Egypt During the Sadat Years. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2000. Hardcover, $49.95. The book is thoroughly researched and based on interviews. Its treatment of political events is chronological and quite detailed. Hence it...

"Pariah States" and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Suda. (Books In Brief).
September 22, 2001... Niblock, Tim. "Pariah States" and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Sudan. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. Hardcover, $49.95. The book asks the question whether sanctions contribute to or damage prospects for a stable...

Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World. (Books In Brief).
September 22, 2001... Rivlin, Paul. Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab world. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. Hardcover, $49.95. This work examines Arab economic policy and performance in the 1990s. It deals with socio-economic issues to...

The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. (Books In Brief).
September 22, 2001... Rogan, Eugene and Avi Shlaim. Editors. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover, $54.95. An illuminating work, which destroys the creation myths of Israel and...

A History of Iraq. (Books In Brief).
September 22, 2001... Tripp, Charles. A History of Iraq. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Paper, $19.95. This political history of Iraq focuses on the nature of the state from the Ottoman period till the present. The linkage between a tight...