Middle East Policy articles from January 1997

Middle East Policy archives from January 1997

Arab-Israeli negotiations and U.S. interests in the Middle East: second-term imperatives.(U.S. Vital Interests Under Threat?)(Panel Discussion)
January 1, 1997... The following is an edited transcript of the twelfth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council over the past four years. The meeting was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on November 21, 1996....

The battle over Israeli and Palestinian national character.(U.S. Vital Interests Under Threat?)
January 1, 1997... The third and final phase of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations is expected to be more difficult and intractable than the previous rounds that led to the Oslo agreements and the eventual redeployment of Israeli troops from Hebron. This...

Has Israel annexed East Jerusalem?(U.S. Vital Interests Under Threat?)
January 1, 1997... The Israel-PLO agreement in Oslo permitted a delay before the parties would begin negotiations over "permanent-status issues"--including settlements, boundaries, refugees and Jerusalem. That delay, until the beginning of the third year of the...

Time to modify our Gulf policy. (Persian Gulf)(U.S. Vital Interests Under Threat?)
January 1, 1997... The behavior of the current Iraqi and Iranian regimes threatens U.S. national interests. But it is becoming increasingly clear that American policy toward these two countries, which seemed to hold promise five years ago, is not achieving its...

Democracy and U.S. policy in the Muslim Middle East.(Islam and Democratization)
January 1, 1997... Is democracy a policy goal of the United States in the Middle East? Clinton administration officials are reticent to use the word democracy in their statements on the Muslim Middle East. However, they do not explicitly exclude the region from...

Political Islam: can it become a loyal opposition?(Islam and Democratization)(Panel Discussion)
January 1, 1997... The following is an edited transcript of the eleventh in a series of Capitol Hill Conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. It was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 4, 1996, with Council president George McGovern...

Prospects for regime change in Iran.(Islam and Democratization)
January 1, 1997... I ran today is a land of dashed hopes. Nearly 18 years after its inception, the islamic Republic is in grave trouble. The regime's mismanagement of the Iranian economy, its restrictive and bothersome social policies, and its unbridled...

An assessment of macroeconomic and structural adjustment in the Middle East and North Africa since 1980.
January 1, 1997... The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region offer striking contrasts, with considerable variations in per capita income and underlying economic structures.(1) Although most countries in the region are classified as...

The Caspian oil and gas basis: a new source of wealth?
January 1, 1997... The breakup of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a number of independent states on the western and eastern sides of the Caspian Sea have opened enticing prospects for the development of these sovereign republics' abundant hydrocarbon...

The offsets program in the United Arab Emirates.
January 1, 1997... The mission of the UAE offsets program is to create wealth-generating opportunities for the private sector. In the 1960s, industrial-cooperation mechanisms were introduced between industrialized and developing countries in order to allow the...

U.S. foreign assistance to Somalia: phoenix from the ashes?(Special Focus: U.S. Development Assistance, part 2)
January 1, 1997... Few topics inspire more cynicism among seasoned observers of international politics than foreign assistance to Somalia By some reckonings, no other country save Israel has received such high levels of military and economic aid per capita;...

Courting his majesty: USAID in King Hassan's Morocco. (U.S. Agency for International Development)(Special Focus: U.S. Development Assistance, part 2)
January 1, 1997... Thus history suggests that dictators come in two types: one whose personal objectives often conflict with [economic] growth promotion and another whose interest dictate a preoccupation with economic development The theory that...

The American Way: U.S. development policy in the Middle East.(Special Focus: U.S. Development Assistance, part 2)
January 1, 1997... Paradigm choices are an everyday personal occurence. A decision about getting married or having children is either done automatically and without reflection or evaluated according to contrasting religious, social or other systems. In the...

Promoting democracy: USAID, at sea or off to cyberspace?(Special Focus: U.S. Development Assistance, part 2)
January 1, 1997... The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is, of course, an instrument of U.S. foreign policy and hence labors under political constraints. Its efforts to promote democracy--one of its strategic objectives, the others...

The case for post-Cold-War U.S. foreign assistance: some concluding thoughts.(Special Focus: U.S. Development Assistance, part 2)
January 1, 1997... In his review of the twentieth century, the noted historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote: "If humanity is to have a recognizable future, it cannot be by prolonging the past or the present. If we try to build the third millennium on that basis, we shall...

Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability.
January 1, 1997... edited by Jamal S. Al-Suwaidi. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic studies and Research, 1996. 425 pages. $60, hardcover; $40, paperback. Iran and the Gulf an interesting compendium of multi-disciplinary papers, sponsored, edited...

The UAE: Formative Years, 1965-1975.
January 1, 1997... text by Asha Bhatia. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London: Motivate Publishing, 1995. 144 pages including 134 of black and white photographs. $39.95. This book contains nearly 140 black and white photographs of the United Arab Emirates taken during...

The Rise, Corruption, and Coming Fall of the House of Said.
January 1, 1997... by Said K. Aburish. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1994, 1995, 1996. xvi + 328 pages. $15.95, paperback. Two terrorist bombings that killed 24 American servicemen stationed in Saudi Arabia have drawn attention to the existence of...

The United States and Arab Nationalism: The Syrian Case, 1953-1960.
January 1, 1997... by Bonnie F. Saunders. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. 97 pages, including bibliography and index. $49.95, hardcover. In her brief monograph, Bonnie Saunders examines the U.S.-Syrian relationship during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. This...

Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society.
January 1, 1997... By Michael Gilsenan. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. xv plus 377 pages, with 6 maps, 5 figures and 20 plates, notes, bibliography and index. $22.00, paperback. The title of this intriguing anthropological study of a Sunni Muslim...

Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin.
January 1, 1997... By The Jerusalem Report staff (edited by David Horovitz). New York: Newmarket Press, 1996. 314 pages. $24.95, hardcover. Since its creation in 1990, The Jerusalem Report has provided high quality, English-language coverage of Israeli,...

The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and Its Borderlands.
January 1, 1997... edited by Ali Banuazizi and Myron Weiner. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. 284 pages, with index. $39.95, hardcover; $15.95, paperback. When the Soviet Communist monolith collapsed in December 1991, five Muslim...

In Their Shoes.
January 1, 1997... by Grace Halsell. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1996. 242 pages, $24.95, hardcover. 200 pages, $14.95, paperback. One of the photographs in Grace Halsell's autobiographical In Their Shoes shows a 16-year-old Grace astride...