Middle East Policy articles from December 2002

Middle East Policy archives from December 2002

Editor's note.
December 1, 2002... Let's take a moment to sympathize with President Bush as he confronts the paralyzing dilemma of whether and how to go to war in Iraq. He is apparently hesitating because there are major differences, both strategic and tactical, among his senior...

War with Iraq: a cost-benefit analysis.
December 1, 2002... The following is an edited transcript of the thirtieth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on October 9, 2002, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.,...

Reinventing Iraq: the regional impact of U.S. military action.
December 1, 2002... Dr. Yaphe, senior research fellow and Middle East specialist at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the National Defense University at Ft. McNair, wrote this memo at the end of September. Analysis and conclusions expressed are hers...

Invading Iraq: the road to perpetual war.
December 1, 2002... The furious reaction by the Bush administration in September to a remark by German justice minister Herta Daubler-Gmelin comparing Bush's tactics to those of Hitler made for good domestic politics in the United States. At the same time, the...

Arab-U.S. strategic cooperation: a net assessment.
December 1, 2002... Dr Cordesman is the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The following is the text of his address to the "Policymakers' Conference" convened in Washington on September 9, 2002, by the...

More than targets or markets: recasting America's relationships with its Arab partners.
December 1, 2002... Dr. Bronson is an Olin senior fellow and the director of Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Rachel Abramson and Sarah Saghir provided research assistance to this article. ********** Sandy Berger, President...

Imperial headaches: managing unruly regions in an age of globalization.
December 1, 2002... It has been four years since the Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami, proposed a "dialogue between civilizations," but it seems much longer. Indeed, in the year since September 11, the global mood has darkened, and the decade of the 1990s now...

The impact of 9/11 on the Middle East.
December 1, 2002... The following are summaries of papers presented by members of the Middle East Working Group on a program of panels at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston, MA, August 31, 2002. The panels were organized by...

Interviews from Gaza: what Hamas wants.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Dr. Rantisi, Mr. Abu Shanab and Dr. al-Zahar are senior officials of the Hamas political wing in Gaza. Sheikh Yassin is the organization's spiritual leader. Rantisi and Zahar are medical doctors. Abu Shanab is a U.S.-educated engineer who, like...

Interviews from Gaza: Palestinian options under siege.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Dr. Abu-Amr and Dr. Abdel Shaft are independent, pro-democracy activists based in Gaza City. Both were elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996 under the interim Oslo accords. Abu-Amr, an academic who has published widely, is the...

Ending the Palestinian economy.
December 1, 2002... Dr. Roy is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. This article emanates from a project supported by a grant from the Research and Writing Initiative of the Program on Global Security and...

Elusive partnership: U.S. and European policies in the near East and the Gulf.
December 1, 2002... The following is the executive summary of a September 2002 joint policy paper by the Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS) and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, with an updated introduction by Christopher Makins, president...

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Michael B. Oren. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 327 pages, with notes, bibliography and index. $30.00, hardcover. Although it lasted only 132 hours, the June 1967 war had a momentous impact on the subsequent evolution of...

Hizbullah: Politics and Religion.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb. London & Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002. x + 191 pages, with 2 appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography and index. $69.95, hardcover; $22.50, paperback. In the West, the Hizbullah (Party of God) of Lebanon is among...

Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict, by Samir Khalaf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 368 pages. $32.50, hardcover. New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle...

Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Joseph A. Kechichian. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 471 pages. $69.95, hardcover. Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States is a first-rate compendium of analytical snapshots that is both blessed and cursed by inadvertent timeliness....

Unholy Wars.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by John Cooley. London, Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, Third Edition, 2002. 268 pages, with footnotes, appendices and index. $19.95, paperback. In the flood of analysis about the origins of the September 11 attack and previous terrorist...