Journal of International Affairs articles from June 1995

Journal of International Affairs archives from June 1995

Competing Identities in the Arab World.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... The "Middle East" as a region can mean several things and can refer to a multiple set of country clusters. At the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East as a concept often incorporates three geographic clusters: North Africa, the Fertile...

Peace and democracy in the Middle East: the constraints of soft budgets.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... On 13 September 1993, life-long foes Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed an agreement to "put an end to decades of confrontation and...

External capital and political liberalizations: a typology of Middle Eastern development in the 1980s and 1990s.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... Recent scholarship has emphasized that issues of state and regime are critical determinants of the scope and timing of economic reforms in the developing world. This approach, by and large, attributes the success and failure of such reforms to...

Sheikhs and Souks: capital market formation in the Middle East.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... Introduction Since the beginning of Western civilization, the markets of the Middle East have buzzed with activity. Yet the countries of the region that brought us currency, trade and law - the bases of modern commerce - have been relative...

Peace and political reform in th Gulf: the private sector. (Persian Gulf)(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... Some scholars have argued that the dawn of democracy in the Gulf is visible, noting that there is evidence of its presence in nearly every country in the region.(1) Once one gets past the rhetoric about fundamentalism in Iran, democratizing...

Rivers of conflict, rivers of peace.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... In arid and semi-arid regions of the world where water scarcity is a fact of life, the search for water punctuates the history of communities and mediates their political relations. Fresh water is vital for human survival, yet its availability is...

Iran: the adolescent revolution.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)
June 22, 1995... When Andre Malraux asked Chou En-lai for his evaluation of the French Revolution, the great Chinese revolutionary reportedly pondered for a moment and then replied, "It is too early to tell." The political and social effects of revolutions are...

The U.N. and arms control in Iraq: a new role? (interview with ambassador Rolf Ekeus)(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)(Interview)
June 22, 1995... Journal: What are the principal responsibilities of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), and what technical assets are at its disposal? Ekeus: The principal responsibility of UNSCOM is to implement the weapons sections of Security...

Conventional arms exports and stability in the Middle East.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)(Interview)
June 22, 1995... It is commonly accepted that the Middle East is awash in conventional arms, with pressure for the delivery of ever more exotic, lethal equipment. It is also commonly asserted that such supplies are basically destabilizing and hence that some...

Middle East nuclear stability: the state of the region and the state of the debate.(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)(Interview)
June 22, 1995... How likely are nuclear weapons to spread in the Middle East? How fast might they proliferate? How would the proliferation of nuclear weapons affect the stability of the Middle East, and what situational factors might affect the region's prospects...

Communal strife in Lebanon: ancient animosities or state intervention?(Continuity and Transformation: The Modern Middle East)(Interview)
June 22, 1995... Communal Conflict: An Introduction The current spate of communal violence - violence among groups that define themselves by differences in their respective religions, ethnicity, language or race - is one of today's paramount human rights...

The Transformation of European Politics: 1763-1848.
June 22, 1995... The publication of The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 confirms not only the preeminence of the Oxford History of Modern Europe among modern historical series, but also Paul Schroeder's position as a diplomatic historian and...

The Broken Covenant: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis Between the U.S. and Israel.
June 22, 1995... The Bush administration's efforts to advance the Middle East peace process provide a vivid illustration of the maxim that he who tries to please everyone will ultimately please no one. Despite the undeniable achievement represented by the signing...

U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton.
June 22, 1995... The Bush administration's efforts to advance the Middle East peace process provide a vivid illustration of the maxim that he who tries to please everyone will ultimately please no one. Despite the undeniable achievement represented by the signing...

Turkey's New Geopolitics: From the Balkans to Western China.
June 22, 1995... The past several years have seen momentous changes throughout the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East. The processes initiated by the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War are far from being resolved, and these regions...

Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy.
June 22, 1995... Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy is an interesting collection of essays written by expatriate and dissident Iraqis, both Arab and Kurdish, now living in Europe and the United States. A variety of topics are covered, from the role...