Middle East Policy articles from December 2003

Middle East Policy archives from December 2003

Editor's note.(Editorial)
December 22, 2003... Is the closest parallel to the Iraq War not Vietnam but Algeria (with the United States in the role of France), as several analysts have suggested? The 1967 film "The Battle of Algiers" was recently screened at the Pentagon. To summarize, the...

Imperial dreams: can the Middle East be transformed?
December 22, 2003... CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR., president, Middle East Policy Council We are here today to talk about the impact of Iraq--as it is under the American occupation and as it will be under a future Iraqi regime--on the region as a whole. It may seem a...

Military power and state formation in modern Iraq.
December 22, 2003... This study will address the evolution of military power and security and their relationship to state formation in Iraq from 1921 to the present. Throughout history, military power and other types of security and law-and-order infrastructures...

Missing the mark: foreign aid to the Palestinians.
December 22, 2003... Throughout various stages of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and especially since the onset of the Oslo period in 1993, the Palestinians have relied heavily on development funding and humanitarian aid provided by the...

In the name of security: IDF measures and the laws of occupation.
December 22, 2003... The genesis of the current phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies in the occupation by Israel of the West Bank from Jordan, the Sinai (including Gaza) from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-day War). (1) The...

Water: Israeli strategy, implications for peace and the viability of Palestine.
December 22, 2003... FROM HAARETZ, JUNE 21, 1999: "A total of 40,000 people living in Katna and six neighboring villages between Ramallah and Jerusalem are living on the extreme edge of a most precarious water supply. The high areas have almost no running...

Water trade between Israel and Turkey: a start in the Middle East?
December 22, 2003... Starting with the Military Training and Cooperation Agreement signed on February 24, 1996, the Israeli-Turkish strategic partnership has spread to other fields of cooperation such as trade, tourism and science. After the free-trade agreement,...

Testing the Saudi "will to power": challenges confronting Prince Abdallah.
December 22, 2003... If the Al Saud faced the wrath of extremist elements in November 1979, when the Makkah Mosque was occupied for three long weeks by hundreds of neo-Ikhwan supporters, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia faced a double rage in 2003. Riyadh confronted the...

U.S.-Saudi relations: bump in the road or end of the road?
December 22, 2003... HOW WE SEE EACH OTHER In June 2003, the Rockefeller Foundation convened a conference on relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia, as part of its longstanding efforts to encourage dialogue on critical global issues. The...

Middle Eastern energy after the Iraq war: current and projected trends.
December 22, 2003... The Iraq War has removed a tyrant, but it has had little impact on the overall importance of Middle Eastern energy--except to cut short-term Iraqi production and create new uncertainties about Iraq's midterm export capacity. Similarly, for all...

The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Central Asian Heartland.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Central Asian Heartland, Karl E. Meyer. New York: Century Foundation, 2003. Notes, bibliography and index. 252 pages. $18.20, paperback. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of...

Arbitrating Armed Conflict: Decisions of the Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Adir Waldman. Huntington, NY: Juris Publishing Inc., 2003. Index. viii plus 320 pages. $60.00, cloth. The concluding sentence of Adir Waldman's book may be perceived as presenting his entire theory in a nutshell: "Soldiers, statesmen...

Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Baruch Kimmerling. London/New York: Verso, 2003. 234 pages. $22.00, hardcover. It has become somewhat of a commonplace in the mass media that the Israeli peace movement is exhausted and battered, demoralized in the wake of the failure...

Looking into HAMAS and Other Constituents of the Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Wolfgang Freund. Volume 2 of Controversies from the Promised Land, a series of Social Sciences Publications, edited by Wolfgang Freund. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publisher, 2002. 200 pages, numerous figures and documents. $30.95, paperback. ...

The Two Faces of Islam: the House of Saud from Tradition to Terror.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Stephen Schwartz. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2002. 336 pages. $25.00, hardcover. In recent years, few issues have raised as much controversy as the relationship between Islam and political violence. While some analysts and...

Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Adeed Dawisha. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. vi plus 340 pages. $29.95, hardcover. Adeed Dawisha has enhanced his distinguished academic career as a professor of political science by writing this comprehensive study on...

Human Rights and the Middle East.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Mehdi Zakerian. Tehran: Center for Scientific Research and Middle Eastern Strategic Studies, Fall 2003. Index. 206 pages. At a time when state sovereignty is being transformed by human-rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and...