Middle East Policy articles from September 1997

Middle East Policy archives from September 1997

Dangerous perceptions: Gulf views of the U.S. role in the region.
September 1, 1997... The Clinton administration continues to see the policy of "dual containment" in the Persian/Arabian Gulf as a major success. Saddam Hussein remains in his box, unable to threaten the security of America's allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council...

The United Arab Emirates: what are the sources of its stability?
September 1, 1997... Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of democratic trends in pre-viously non-democratic states, the attention of scholars and government officials has focused on prospects for democratization in the Third World.(1) ...

OPEC's seventh life. (reasons for OPEC's survival)
September 1, 1997... When the secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was asked on the group's 35th anniversary what he thought OPEC's greatest achievement was during the three-and-a-half decades of its life, he unhesitatingly...

Election day in Aden. (Yemen's April 27, 1997 parliamentary election)
September 1, 1997... Sunday, April 27, 1997, was election day in Yemen. All 301 seats in Yemen's Parliament were to be decided upon. This was only the second parliamentary elections to be held since the unification of former North and South Yemens in May 1990. The...

A new era for Iran? (potential for change after the May 23, 1997 election of Mohammad Khatami)
September 1, 1997... When Mohammad Khatami unexpectedly won the Iranian presidential election on May 23, 1997, hopes ran high that he would take Iran in new policy directions both at home and abroad. At home, that meant a relaxation of some of the strict and...

Palestinians in Jerusalem: the denationalization of a community.
September 1, 1997... Generally speaking, when Muslim rights in Jerusalem are enunciated, history, people and nationalism become intermingled. The reason is twofold: the difficulty of building a case for Muslim rights outside the range of the city's history, as...

Policies of ethnic preference: collective vs. individual rights in Israel.
September 1, 1997... At the declaration of statehood, the Israeli government gave the Arabs living inside the borders of the state Israeli citizenship. In practice, they did not acquire the same citizenship as Jewish Israelis. Jews have dominated Arabs in their...

Likud's Jordan policy.
September 1, 1997... With, Likud's June 1996 return to power, the Middle East peace process experienced revived scrutiny. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought, at the very least, a partial reversal of Israel's agreements with the Palestinians inherited from...

Why Syria must regain the Golan to make peace.
September 1, 1997... The formula of "full withdrawal for full peace" remains at the heart of the present impasse in the Israeli-Syrian negotiations. Because the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects, presumably on security grounds, the...

Will Nile water go to Israel? North Sinai pipelines and the politics of scarcity.
September 1, 1997... The vital importance of the Nile to Egypt, the river's furthest downstream state, is widely accepted and well documented. Throughout recent history Egypt has exerted the greatest degree of control over the Nile both politically and physically....

Challenges to the military in Egypt.
September 1, 1997... In the aftermath of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the Egyptian military has become an institution with an increasingly professional outlook. It has also fallen victim to a host of internal pressures and challenges, ranging from a...

Policy entrepreneurs: the third dimension in American foreign-policy culture.
September 1, 1997... "The Great oil boom was an event so profoundly and broadly influential that it provides the key to understanding the surge of Islam." -- Daniel Pipes, 1983.(1) "Yet it is naive to attribute the Islamic revival mainly to oil." -- John Esposito,...

Gender, politics and the state: what do Middle Eastern women want? (essays presented at the Conference Group on the Middle East in San Francisco, August 29-September 1, 1996)
September 1, 1997... The essays that follow are drawn from invited presentations of the Conference Group on the Middle East, which meets annually in conjunction with the American Political Science Association. The essays published here were presented in San...

Jewish Lands in Judea, Samaria, the Gaza District, and East Jerusalem.
September 1, 1997... By Eyal Zamir and Eyal Benvenisti. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1993. 319 pages, including appendix. For two decades officials in the Israel Lands Administration, in cooperation with the Jewish National Fund and...

Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution.
September 1, 1997... by Glenn E. Robinson. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. xiii + 228 pages, with notes and index. $14.95, paperback. Glenn Robinson has produced a well-informed and tightly argued analysis of the evolution of...

Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social and Political Study.
September 1, 1997... By Daphne Tsimhoni. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1993. xviii plus 207 pages, Appendix, map, bibliography and index to p. 239. $55.00, hardcover. Associate Professor, American University of Beirut Daphne Tsimhoni is an Israeli scholar...

Christians in the Holy Land.
September 1, 1997... Edited by Michael Prior and William Taylor. London: The World of Islam Festival Trust, 1994. xviii plus 235 pages. 10 [pounds sterling], paperback. Daphne Tsimhoni is an Israeli scholar who has made the Christian communities of the occupied...

The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude.
September 1, 1997... By Bat Ye'or. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1996. (First published in French as "Les Chretiennes d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude, VIIe-XXe siecle, 1991.) 515 pages. $19.95, hardcover. The first thing that strikes the...

Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
September 1, 1997... By Theodore Hall Patrick. Greensboro, NC: Fisher Fork Press, 1996. Xiv plus 226 pages, bibliography and index. $14.95, paper. The first thing that strikes the reader of Bat Ye'or's study is that it is not only about Eastern Christianity...

Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq.
September 1, 1997... By Malik Mufti. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. 286 pages. $35.00, hardcover. This book is a study of Arab nationalism and the many unity schemes attempted by Iraq and Syria from the rise of the Iraqi state in 1921 until...

L'Affaire Zeghar: deliquescence d'un Etat, l'Algerie sous Chadli.
September 1, 1997... By Hanafi Taguemout. Paris: Editions Publisud, 1994. 207 pages. Paperback. Messaoud Zeghar was, until his death in 1987, the wealthiest businessman in post-independence Algeria. He was also a longtime personal friend of President Houari...

Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics.
September 1, 1997... By Susan E. Waltz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. $16.00, paperback. Human rights have become increasingly high-profile in recent years. The research and advocacy of organizations like Amnesty International, Human...

Small Islands, Big Politics: The Tonbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf.
September 1, 1997... Hooshang Amirahmadi, editor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Viii - 1160 pages, appendices to p. 181, bibliography to p. 195, index to p. 200. $45.00. This edited volume comprises four papers by Hooshang Amirahmadi, Pirouz...