Middle East Policy articles from January 1998

Middle East Policy archives from January 1998

Oman's economy: back on track.(The Gulf)
January 1, 1998... Mr. Molavi, a Dubai-based journalist, covered Gulf Cooperation Council economies as a Riyadh-based correspondent with Arab News, a Saudi Arabian daily. He has also written for the Financial Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Asharq...

Interview: H.E. Abdallah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyeh, president, OPEC; oil minister of Qatar.(The Gulf)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... The following interview was done in Qatar in late September 1997 by John Duke Anthony, president and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. DR. ANTHONY: What are Qatar's economic objectives? DR. ATTIYEH: They are to...

The Gulf Cooperation Council: prospects for expansion.(The Gulf)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... The enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been the focus of debate in both academic and nonacademic circles, with the inclusion of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic forthcoming despite growing...

Symposium - Caspian oil: pipelines and politics.(The Caspian Region)
January 1, 1998... DR. STARR (Chairman, Central Asia Institute, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) The topic before us is the subject of near daily conferences and meetings and of loudly trumpeted positions...

Iran and the Caucasus.(The Caspian Region)
January 1, 1998... As the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, it was widely expected that Iran and Turkey would enter into a rivalry for influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia -- an expectation which to a large extent has become reality, despite...

Post-cold war realities: Israel's strategy in Azerbaijan and Central Asia.(The Caspian Region)
January 1, 1998... The rapidly shifting balances of the 1990s and new developments stemming from the acceleration of economic globalization have forced Israel to reevaluate and reshape its foreign-policy strategy. The tactical phases of Israel's...

Algeria's Islamist revolution: the people versus democracy?(North Africa)
January 1, 1998... For a former "mujaheed" like me, nothing is more disheartening than to witness Algeria engulfed again, three decades after gaining independence from France, in a savage war prompted by the same causes, tracing the same contours...

King Hassan's strategy of political dualism. (Morocco)(North Africa)
January 1, 1998... Can a Middle Eastern monarchy that presides over a relatively poor country satisfy growing demands for democratization, power-sharing and social reforms while maintaining control over the political system? Can it do so,...

The United States and the Western Sahara peace process.(North Africa)
January 1, 1998... More than seven years after the United Nations Security Council approved the process for a referendum on the fate of Western Sahara, and over 22 years after Morocco's takeover of the mineral-rich territory, it now appears...

Hizballah: from radicalism to pragmatism?(The Levant)
January 1, 1998... No manifestation of the Islamist phenomenon evokes more antipathy from U.S. policy makers than Lebanon's Hizballah (Party of God). This is not hard to understand; for more than a decade Iran-backed Hizballah has positioned...

Elite cohesion, regime succession and political instability in Syria.(The Levant)
January 1, 1998... Syria represents an anomaly at the end of the twentieth century: a minority-based authoritarian regime in an era of democratization, governing a predominately state-controlled economy as market orthodoxy is accepted...

Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East.
January 1, 1998... In this comprehensive and up-to-date study, Kemp and Harkavy examine the geopolitics of what they call the "Greater Middle East." Under that label, they include not only what is usually referred to as "the Middle East and North...

Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE: Challenges of Security.
January 1, 1998... These three books represent half of a six-volume set on the Gulf States published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, part of a broader series called the "CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment." The three volumes...

Kuwait: Recovery and Security after the Gulf War.
January 1, 1998... These three books represent half of a six-volume set on the Gulf States published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, part of a broader series called the "CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment." The three volumes...

U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Resources and Capabilities.
January 1, 1998... These three books represent half of a six-volume set on the Gulf States published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, part of a broader series called the "CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment." The three volumes...

Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region.
January 1, 1998... The last fifteen years have witnessed the growth of a virtual cottage industry on security in the Mediterranean, primarily and hardly surprisingly, in Western Europe. What, then, distinguishes this slim volume of conference papers...

War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications.
January 1, 1998... Majid Khadduri, one of our era's great scholars of Islamic law and history, has combined with Edmund Ghareeb, an esteemed specialist in Middle East affairs, to give us a study on the recent Gulf War. Its purpose, they write, is to...

Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform?
January 1, 1998... In the last quarter of the twentieth century, democratization, liberalization and human rights have become the cornerstone of the global debate. During this time, the Muslim world has seen the resurgence of the political Islam in a...

The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East.
January 1, 1998... The Cornell Studies in Political Economy series, in which The Price of Wealth appears, is known for producing valuable contributions to the international political economy literature; Kiren Aziz Chaudhry's new book adds to Cornell's...

Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers.
January 1, 1998... The study of Islam, Islamic or Muslim society and polity, and the Arab, Iranian and Turkish Middle East has a history. It is, after all, no different from any other intellectual pursuit except perhaps in its relative newness. As with...

A Lebanon Defied: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a Community.
January 1, 1998... A number of books and even more articles have been written on the mysterious disappearance of the charismatic leader of Lebanon's Shia community, Imam Musa al-Sadr, on August 31, 1978, in Tripoli, Libya, notably Fouad Ajami's The...

Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment.
January 1, 1998... J.J. Goldberg's book, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment shows how American Jews have become a national political force since the end of World War II. There are approximately 5 million Jews in the United States...