Middle East Policy articles from September 2001

Middle East Policy archives from September 2001

Editor's Note.
September 1, 2001... Israel Shahak has died. A professor of chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a human-rights activist, he was an uncompromisingly honest observer of the state of Israel, where he had immigrated with his mother when he was 12, following...

Lebanon and Syria: internal and regional dimensions: the following is an edited transcript of the twenty-fifth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on May 23, 2001, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., moderating. (Symposium: Lebanon and Syria).(Transcript)
September 1, 2001... CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR., president, Middle East Policy Council Lebanon has been both a participant and a victim of the vortex of politics in the region. With the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the end of occupation there, a whole range...

The Maronites and Syrian withdrawal: from "isolationists" to "traitors"?
September 1, 2001... Using as a starting point the Maronite patriarch's statement (September 20, 2000) calling for the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, this article traces Maronite-Syrian relations since the eruption of the civil war in Lebanon in 1975. It examines...

Sadat peace lecture: negotiating hard cases.
September 1, 2001... I've been asked to speak tonight about my experiences in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, but I begin by going back to the summer of 1787, when a small group of Americans gathered in Philadelphia in a constitutional convention. They had...

Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh fact-finding committee [Mitchell report]. (Document: The Mitchell Report).
September 1, 2001... For footnotes to this document, go to the Meridian International Center website and download the document at www.meridian.org/sheikh.htm. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS The Government of Israel (GOI) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) must...

The end of dual containment: Iraq, Iran and Smart Sanctions: the following is an edited transcript of a conference sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Middle East Policy Council and the Stanley Foundation.(Transcript)
September 1, 2001... The end of dual containment: Iraq, Iran and Smart Sanctions: the following is an edited transcript of a conference sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the...

The politics of hegemony: the United States and Iran.
September 1, 2001... The Islamic Republic of Iran has survived for over two decades. Among other challenges, it has had to overcome a punishing 95-month war with neighboring Iraq, the active hostility of the world's unrivaled superpower, and an internal political...

The failure of U.S. policy toward Iraq and proposed alternatives: the document that follows is the result of two meetings initiated in 2001 by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) to examine the failure of current U.S. policy toward Iraq and to draw up a statement outlining the components of a new, more humane and effective policy. It was prepared by Phyllis Bennis, Stephen Zunes and Martha Honey. (1) (Document: Failure of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq).
September 1, 2001... Current U.S.-U.N. policy regarding Iraq has failed and has largely lost credibility. It is widely viewed internationally as reflecting U.S. (and, to a lesser degree, British) insistence on maintaining a punitive sanctions-based approach...

The state of Qatar: a financial and legal overview.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... SOCIOECONOMIC PROFILE Qatar is a hereditary emirate, ruled by the Al-Thani family since the nineteenth century. After a century of Ottoman occupation, in 1916, a treaty was ratified with Britain making Qatar a British protectorate. The...

"Round up the unusual suspects": U.S. policy toward Algeria and its Islamists.
September 1, 2001... For most Americans, Algeria's civil conflict for the last decade has been a distant concern. It seems to impinge on no important U.S. interests. The horrific violence reported periodically, and mostly dutifully, in the American media has seemed...

American-Turkish relations since the end of the cold war.
September 1, 2001... TURKEY'S GEOSTRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE During the last fifty years strategic considerations have been the most salient factor in determining U.S. relations with Turkey. Countries like Greece or Israel can negotiate with Washington also at a...

Negotiating Jerusalem. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Negotiating Jerusalem, by Jerome M. Segal, Shlomit Levy, Nadar Izzat Sa'id and Elihu Katz. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. 341 pages. $31.95, paperback. No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has been more colored by...

The Ownership of the U.S. Embassy Site in Jerusalem. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Ownership of the U.S. Embassy Site in Jerusalem, by Walid Khalidi. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies and the American Committee on Jerusalem, 2001. 63 pages. $5.00, paperback. In its listing of its available publications,...

The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2001... The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914, by Gertrude Bell. Rosemary O'Brien, ed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 257 pages with photographs, glossary and index. $29.00, hardcover. The imperial age of the nineteenth and early twentieth...

Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran, by Daniel Brumberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 306 pages, with notes and index. $21.00, paperback. This is in some ways a curious book. Seeing the title, an irreverent...

Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls, by Jahangir Amuzegar. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 282 pages. $24.50, paperback. Three years ago, the price of oil plunged below $10 per barrel on the world market. This marked its...

Turkey Today: A Nation Divided over Islam's Revival. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Turkey Today: A Nation Divided over Islam's Revival, by Marvine Howe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. xviii + 310 pages, with notes, bibliography and index. $26.00, hardcover. Carl Brown in Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to...

Turkey's Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia, 1991-2000: The Kurdish and Islamist Questions. (Book Reviews).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Turkey's Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia, 1991-2000: The Kurdish and Islamist Questions, by Robert Olson. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2001. ix + 240 pages, with maps, bibliography and index. $19.95, paperback. Turkey...