Middle East Policy articles from September 2005

Middle East Policy archives from September 2005

Editor's note.
September 22, 2005... This summer, just as terrorists were bombing the transit system in central London, the Bush administration was re-branding its "Global War on Terror" as the "global struggle against violent extremism." This is a healthy turn toward realism. A...

Occupied Iraq: one country, many wars.(Panel Discussion)(Transcript)
September 22, 2005... The following is an edited transcript of the fortieth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on June 17, 2005, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.,...

The third option in Iraq: a responsible exit strategy.(Porter: Iraq, Exit Strategy)
September 22, 2005... The U.S. military occupation of Iraq is the subject of a political stalemate at home, despite its lack of public support. A CNN/ USA Today/Gallup Poll survey in mid-June showed that 59 percent said they opposed "the U.S. war with Iraq," while...

Iran's Third Development Plan: an appraisal.
September 22, 2005... At 4:03 p.m., March 20, 2005--the beginning of the Iranian New Year--the five-year odyssey of Iran's Third Development Plan came to an unceremonious end in sharp contrast to its much-trumpeted start. Sending the bill for the plan to the Majlis...

Saudi Arabia in the 21st century: a new security dilemma.
September 22, 2005... Throughout much of 2003, 2004 and 2005, the international community has watched in morbid fascination as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) waltzed through a halting, reluctant slow-dance, with each side alternately pushing...

Deciphering Islam's multiple voices: intellectual luxury or strategic necessity?
September 22, 2005... The question "Who Speaks for Islam?" has become of fundamental importance to the West in light of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as well as the subsequent violence in parts of the Muslim world, most notably in Iraq, ostensibly undertaken in the...

The Arabs, Islam and globalization.
September 22, 2005... The twenty-first century presents the Arab-Muslim world with a challenge that may determine its future for generations. The Arabs are quite concerned about maintaining their cultural identity and their independence in the face of the West's...

Enemy of the state: a conversation with Ilan Pappie.(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Israeli academic Ilan Pappe first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of Israel's "New Historian" movement, which chronicled the war crimes and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Dr Pappe...

The politics of corruption in Palestine: evidence from recent public-opinion polls.(Denoeux: The Politics of Corruption in Palestine)
September 22, 2005... This analysis draws on survey data released by two respected polling sources in Palestine: the Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) and Birzeit University's Development Studies Programme (DSP). Based in Ramallah, and headed...

Libya's rising star: Saif al-Islam and succession.(Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi)
September 22, 2005... Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi's article in Middle East Policy in spring 2003, in which he conveyed the message that Libya has entered a new era in its history, thrust him once again to the forefront of public attention, illustrating well his status...

Interview: Richard L. Armitage.(undersecretary of state)(Interview)
September 22, 2005... Mr. Armitage was undersecretary of state 2001-2005. He served as assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. The following interview was conducted by Anne Joyce, editor of Middle East Policy, on July 21, 2005. Q: Why did...

Understanding Iraq.(Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Understanding Iraq, by William R. Polk. HarperCollins, 2005. 222 pages. $22.95, hardcover. Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco, by David L. Phillips. Westview Press, 2005.292 pages. $25.00, hardcover. It's comforting...

Understanding Terror Networks.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Understanding Terror Networks, by Marc Sageman. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 220 pages with appendix, glossary, bibliography. $29.95 hardcover. Marc Sageman's study of al-Qaeda is a significant contribution to the growing...

Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Islamic Fundamentalism since 1945, by Beverley Milton-Edwards. Routledge, 2005.158 pages, with chronology, bibliography, glossary and index. $20.95, paperback. Reducing Islamic fundamentalism to an expression of terrorism while ignoring...

Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism, by Judith Palmer Harik. IB Tauris, 2004, xii 241 pp., 2 maps. $24.95, hardcover. This is the third book by a woman author in recent years on the phenomenon of "The Party of God," and the first by...

Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967, 3d ed.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967, Third Edition, by William B. Quandt. Brookings Institution Press and University of California Press, 2005. xi 535, with notes, selected bibliography and index. $45.00,...

How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate, a Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate, a Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process, by Tamara Cofman Wittes, editor, United States Institute of Peace, 2005, 160 pages with footnotes & index. $14.95, paperback. Was the clash of...

Defending Israel: A Controversial Plan toward Peace.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Defending Israel: A Controversial Plan Toward Peace, by Martin van Creveld. St. Martin's Press, 2004. 165 pages, with notes and index. $21.95, hardcover. One of the major arguments of the opponents of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the West...

Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire, by Flynt Leverett. The Brookings Institution Press, 2005. xv plus 166 pages, with chronology and notes. $27.95, hardcover. For over a quarter century, from administration to administration,...

The World According to Whitbeck.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The World According to Whitbeck, by John Whitbeck. Five and Ten Press, 2005. 105 pages. $10 paperback. Although a practicing lawyer in Saudi Arabia by profession, a long-term resident of Paris by choice, and an American by nationality and...

Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony?(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony? by Toby Shelley. Zed Books, 2004.215 pages, including notes and index. $22.50, paperback. After a multigeneration guerrilla struggle has become moribund, an intifada...