Middle East Policy articles from February 2000

Middle East Policy archives from February 2000

EDITOR'S NOTE.
February 1, 2000... If you are reading this page, you probably are a regular who recognizes the value of this journal. You are not alone, although you may have underestimated how many others share your taste. Middle East Policy is well-known to the policy-involved...

JOINING THE GLOBAL RULES-BASED ECONOMY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE GCC.
February 1, 2000... The following is an edited transcript of the twentieth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on February 1, 2000, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman,...

GCC FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE QUEST FOR DEVELOPMENT.
February 1, 2000... Over the past three decades, the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have witnessed considerable improvements in their overall standards of living. Fueled by a dramatic increase in the price of oil during the 1970s, per capita GDP...

SAUDI ARABIA'S WILL TO POWER.
February 1, 2000... Since 1932, when various tribes on the Arabian peninsula were united by Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman, the Al Saud have ruled over their kingdom with skill and perseverance. The guardianship of the holy mosques at Makkah and Madinah has conferred...

THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES.
February 1, 2000... The following is an edited text of the presentations at the December 7, 1999, meeting of the Sadat Forum at Brookings cohosted by Richard Haass, vice-president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Shibley...

SYRIA, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS: PAST SUCCESS AND FINAL CHALLENGES.
February 1, 2000... The progress achieved over the past decade toward ending the Middle East conflict has been an accomplishment unparalleled in the more than three decades of attempts to bring peace to the area. The Madrid Conference in 1991, the Oslo accords in...

THE FUTURE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN RELATIONSHIP.
February 1, 2000... The following concept paper was prepared by the Joint Working Group on Israeli-Palestinian Relations and edited by Herbert C. Kelman at the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,...

THE MODERN HISTORY OF ISLAMIC JERUSALEM: ACADEMIC MYTHS AND PROPAGANDA.
February 1, 2000... NO To city can match the rich history and universalist values of Jerusalem. Much of this universalism must be attributed to Muslim rule, a period of over thirteen centuries in which the city never lost its reputation for tolerance and religious...

THE ROAD TO PEACE STARTS IN JERUSALEM: THE CONDOMINIUM SOLUTION.
February 1, 2000... There will never be a durable peace in the Middle East without a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict acceptable to most Israelis and most Palestinians. That is a fact. There will also never be a lasting settlement of the...

RABBINIC CALL FOR A SHARED JERUSALEM.
February 1, 2000... This statement was signed in February 2000 by 314 reform, conservative and reconstructionist American rabbis. It resulted from a year-long educational project involving 1200 rabbis. The president of the Jewish Peace Lobby is Jerome M. Segal,...

LIBYA: A U.S. POLICY PERSPECTIVE.
February 1, 2000... Libya's surrender of the Pan Am 103 suspects for trial and the ensuing suspension of international sanctions have changed the political landscape of the last ten years. These developments have brought justice closer for the families of the Pan...

QADHAFI'S CHANGED POLICY: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES.
February 1, 2000... The April 1999 handover of the two Libyan suspects in the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing, to be tried before a Scottish court seated in the Netherlands, is perceived by many, including most European powers, as a major turning point in Libya's...

QADHAFI'S LIBYA AND THE PROSPECT OF ISLAMIC SUCCESSION.
February 1, 2000... During the past three decades, the Middle East has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of Islamic identity. From Algeria to Yemen, traditional institutions, long supplanted by ideological imports from the West, have risen to reclaim the society...

THE POLITICS OF MOROCCO'S "FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION".
February 1, 2000... In the donor community as well as in academic circles, the second half of the 1990s witnessed a surge of interest in corruption, which is defined here as the abuse of public office for private gain. Pervasive, systemic corruption has now been...

Arabs at the Crossroads: Political Identity and Nationalism.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Arabs at the Crossroads: Political Identity and Nationalism, by Hilal Khashan. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000. 187 pages with notes, bibliography and index. $49.95, hardcover. A political scientist at the American...

Legislative Politics in the Arab World: the Resurgence of Democratic Institutions.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Legislative Politics in the Arab World: the Resurgence of Democratic Institutions, by Abdo Baaklini, Guilain Denoeux and Robert Springborg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner publishers, 1999. 278 pages. $59.95, hardcover; $22.50, paperback. In...

Israel and the Bomb.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Israel and the Bomb, by Avner Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 349 pages. Notes to page 432. Glossary to page 442. Bibliography to page 454. Index to page 470. $27.50, hardcover. "Does she or doesn't she?" is a question...

Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture -- and Destruction of Planet Earth.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture- and Destruction of Planet Earth, by Grace Halsell. Washington, DC: Crossroads International Publishing, 1999. 132 pages. $14.95, paperback. If there is a single use of the word...

Scattered Like Seeds.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Scattered Like Seeds by Shaw J. Dallal. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. 335 pages. $26.95, hardcover. Thafer Allam is the perfect colleague: intuitive, discreet, likable and understated. Any other combination of character traits...

Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, by John D. Cooley. Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 1999. 328 pages. $29.95, hardcover. This is a book about the blowback from the Afghan "jihad" against the USSR. The United...

Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey, by Ahmad S. Moussalli. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 1999. 401 pages. $75.00, hardcover. Ahmad S. Moussalli, associate professor of...

The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.(Review)
February 1, 2000... The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, by Rosemarie Said Zahlan. Reading, England: Ithaca Press 1998. 200 pages: foreword by Roger Owen, introduction, maps, and index. 12.95 [pounds...