Middle East Policy articles from June 1998

Middle East Policy archives from June 1998

Symposium: U.S. Gulf police: how can it be fixed?(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 1998... The following is an edited transcript of the fifteenth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on April 22, 1998, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The moderator/discussant was...

The changing military balance in the gulf.(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 1998... The military build-up in the Gulf is now well over a quarter of a century old. It was first stimulated by World War II, and then given momentum by the Cold War, Nasserism, the fall of the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli War,...

The emerging Arab-Iranian rapprochement: towards an integrated U.S. policy in the Middle East?(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 1998... Why did the leaders of the Muslim world flock so enthusiastically to the Eighth Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) hosted by Iran even though in Washington's eyes Iran was an "international outlaw," and posed, in...

Thinking the unthinkable: solving the problem of Saddam Hussein for good.(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 1998... In the past seven years, since the devastating defeat of Saddam Hussein's military in Desert Storm, a cat-and-mouse game of Iraqi challenge to the United Nations followed by a show of American force culminating in an Iraqi retreat have become...

Confrontation with Iraq: a bankrupt U.S. policy.(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 1998... The crises in recent months between the United States and Iraq, which twice nearly led to heavy American air strikes against that Arab country, have underscored the serious problems in U.S. policy towards the entire region. The Gulf War...

Interview: Haider Abdul-Shafi.
June 1, 1998... Dr. Abdul-Shafi is a former chief Palestinian negotiator in talks with Israel. The following interview was done in his office at the Red Crescent Society in Gaza City on November 18, 1997, by Roger Gaess, a free-lance journalist based in New...

Interview: Ismail Abu Shanab.(Interview)
June 1, 1998... Mr. Abu Shanab is a founding member and a current leader of Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement. The following interview was conducted on November 18, 1997, at his home in Gaza City by Roger Gaess, a free-lance journalist based in New York....

A new low in U.S.-Arab relations.
June 1, 1998... U.S. policies in the Middle East have created a situation of extreme discomfort among its remaining friends in the Arab world, a situation which many feel threatens their own stability and that of the region. A longtime Middle East hand...

The oldest threat: water in the Middle East.
June 1, 1998... Former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, while still a deputy minister in Cairo in 1985, said that the next war in the Near East would not be about politics, but over water. Talking to Joyce Shira Starr, a senior associate at the...

Special report: consultation and consensus in Kuwait: the 18th GCC summit. (Gulf Cooperation Council)
June 1, 1998... Dr. Anthony, president and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, is the only Westerner to have been invited to attend each of the Gulf Cooperation Council's annual summits since the GCC's founding in 1981. The following text...

Middle Eastern POlitics and Ideas: A History from Within.
June 1, 1998... Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within, Edited by Moshe Ma'oz and Ilan Pappe. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. 236 pages, with notes and index. $59.50, hardcover. When Albert Hourani died on January 17,...

Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century.
June 1, 1998... Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century, edited by David E. Long & Christian Koch. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1997.278 pages, including maps, charts, notes and index to 334. Approaching the...

The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion.
June 1, 1998... The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion, edited by Gary G. Sick and Lawrence G. Potter. New York: St. Martins Press, 1997. 356 pages. $35.00, hardcover; $18.95, Paperback. Few recent studies of...

Coalition, Coercion and Compromise: Diplomacy of Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991.
June 1, 1998... Coalition, Coercion and Compromise: Diplomacy of Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991, by Gordon S. Brown. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 1997. ix plus 104 pages, select bibliography. $9.00 paperback. The erosion of the Gulf War...

Islamist Impasse.
June 1, 1998... Islamist Impasse, by Ibrahim Karawan. London: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Adelphi Papers no. 314, 1997. 80 pages, including maps, figures and appendix. An important contribution to the ongoing discussions on Arab...

The Reconstruction of Palestine: Urban and Rural Development.
June 1, 1998... The Reconstruction of Palestine: Urban and Rural Development, edited by A. B. Zahlan. London and New York: Keagan Paul International, 1997. $34, hardcover. One issue has always been at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle: land and...

In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey.
June 1, 1998... In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey, by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. New York: Doubleday, 1998.430 pages, with index. $24.95. It would perhaps be most satisfying to learn that Western women were agreed as to their goals...

The Turkish Labyrinth: Ataturk and the New Islam.
June 1, 1998... The Turkish Labyrinth: Ataturk and the New Islam, by James Pettifer. London: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1997. Scholars such as Fernand Braudel and Halil Incalcik have long made us aware of Turkey's illustrious history. Until very recently,...

Faces of Lebanon - Sects, Wars and Global Extensions.
June 1, 1998... Faces of Lebanon - Sects, Wars and Global Extensions, by William Harris. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publications, 1997. viii plus 354 pages, Index, Bibliography, 23 maps and tables. $39.95, hardcover; $16.95, paperback. This is an ambitious...