Middle East Policy articles from May 1997

Middle East Policy archives from May 1997

Symposium: the challenge in the Gulf: building a bridge from containment to stability.(The Gulf)(Panel Discussion)
May 1, 1997... The following is an edited text of the proceedings of a Capitol Hill conference convened by the Middle East Policy Council on March 5, 1997, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Michael Collins Dunn, senior analyst at the International Estimate,...

The U.S.-GCC relationship: a glass half-empty or half-full? (Gulf Cooperation Council)(The Gulf)
May 1, 1997... The Middle East regional grouping with which the United States has developed its most extensive and multifaceted relationship is the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

The opposition in Bahrain: a bellwether for the Gulf?(The Gulf)
May 1, 1997... While the bombings of U.S. military facilities and potential Islamic unrest in Saudi Arabia have captured public attention, a little-noticed but much more serious opposition movement is taking shape in neighboring Bahrain, with the potential...

Balancing state and society: the Islamic movement in Kuwait.(The Gulf)
May 1, 1997... Dr. Ghabra is associate professor of political science at Kuwait University and editor of its Journal of the Social Sciences. He is the author of Kuwait: A Study of the Dynamics of State, Authority and Society (in Arabic, Cairo, 1995) and Israel...

A vision for the U.S.-Saudi and U.S.-Gulf commercial relationship.(The Gulf)(Transcript)
May 1, 1997... I am very pleased to be here this morning and to have the opportunity to share with American and Saudi business leaders in Jeddah, and with the delegation from the U.S.-Saudi Business Council, the goals of our mission to Saudi Arabia and to...

Israel's Gulf War experience: a brief synopsis.(Arab-Israeli Affairs)
May 1, 1997... PROLOGUE: Since this article was submitted, Israel has conducted another Arrow missile test, reportedly on March 11, 1997. Voice of Israel radio described the test as a "total success." Following an April 3, 1997, meeting between Israeli Defense...

Competing responses to the 1929 Arab uprising in Palestine: The Zionist press versus the State Department.(Arab-Israeli Affairs)
May 1, 1997... This paper will explore American perceptions of Palestine in 1929, the year of the Arab uprising. It will consider three groups within the American milieu: the press as represented by the New York Times (hereafter NYT), Los Angeles Times...

Interview with Mousa Abu Marzook. (head of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas political bureau)(Arab-Israeli Affairs)(Interview)
May 1, 1997... Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is the head of the Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) political bureau. He has been imprisoned at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City since July 1995 when he way taken into custody at...

The water dimension of Golan Heights negotiations.(Arab-Israeli Affairs)
May 1, 1997... If and when Syrian-Israeli peace talks centering on the disposition of the Golan Heights resume, the subject of water will, in due course, move to center stage. Although the central focus of both parties will be on military security...

Great games and small: Afghanistan, Tajikistan and the new geopolitics of Southwest Asia.
May 1, 1997... There is a new geopolitical reality evolving in Central and Southwestern Asia. It is neither the "new Great Game," which some forecast when the USSR dissolved, nor the struggle between political Islam and secularism, which some in Moscow long...

The function of rogue states in U.S. Middle East Policy.
May 1, 1997... For much of the past 50 years, the perceived threat from the Soviet Union formed the primary rationale for U.S. policy in the Middle East, as it did for U.S. foreign policy in general. With the demise of the Soviet Union, however, the United...

Turkey-Syria relations since the Gulf War: Kurds and water.
May 1, 1997... This article will focus on the challenge of Kurdish nationalism within Turkey, particularly as it affects Turkey's relations with Syria and the distribution of the waters of the Euphrates, Tigris and Asi rivers, with which the "Kurdish...

The Middle East's investment challenge.
May 1, 1997... The main challenge facing Middle Eastern economies today is to grow at a high and sustained rate. This is needed to (1) improve living standards and basic social conditions, particularly in the poorer, non-oil-exporting countries of the...

Saudi Arabia: Guarding the Desert Kingdom.
May 1, 1997... by Anthony H. Cordesman. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1997. xiv + 198 pages; notes to p. 218. Hardcover, $65.00; paperback, $27.00. Michael Collins Dunn Editor, The Estimate; president, The International Estimate, Inc., a...

Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment.
May 1, 1997... by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ahmed S. Hashim. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1997. 364 pages. $75.00, hardcover; $30.00, paperback. Benedict F. FitzGerald Senior Associate, C & O Resources, Inc. The level of concern about Iran as a...

Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond.
May 1, 1997... by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ahmed S. Hashim. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1997. $79.00, hardcover; $32.00, paperback. Woolf P. Gross Corporate director for international programs, Northrop Grumman Perhaps by fortuitous coincidence,...

The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Ba'th Party.
May 1, 1997... by Nikolaos van Dam. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. xii and 228 pages, 9 tables, 3 index. $24.50, hardcover. Robert Brenton Betts Associate Professor, American University of Beirut The original work of the same title, first...

Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel.
May 1, 1997... By Yaron Ezrahi. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. 307 pages. $25.00, hardcover. Rubber Bullets is one of the most important, insightful and original books published on Israel in the last decade. The author, a professor of political...

Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint.
May 1, 1997... Edited by Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1966. 267 pages, with appendix and index. $18.95, paperback. Most women around the globe, in all social and economic strata, can testify to having known discrimination. In some countries,...

Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women of the Palestinian National Movement.
May 1, 1997... By Amal Kawar. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 159 pages, with notes and index. $16.95, paperback. Most women around the globe, in all social and economic strata, can testify to having known discrimination. In some...

George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy.
May 1, 1997... By James A. Bill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 232 pages, with Notes, Select Bibliography and Index. $30.00, hardcover. James Bill has written a superb political biography of the diplomat George Ball. Professor Bill of the...

Muslim Politics.
May 1, 1997... By Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 235 pages. $39.50, hardcover; $12.95, paperback. Dale Eickelman, an anthropologist, and James Piscatori, a political scientist, question conventional...