The Middle East enters the twenty-first century / edited by Robert O. Freedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freedman, Robert Owen.

Baltimore Hebrew University. Center for the Study of Israel and the Contemporary Middle East.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Middle East--Politics and government--20th century--Congresses.

Middle East.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 397 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Middle East enters the 21st century

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2002]

Summary:

This collection analyzes the impact of the three major developments of the latter part of the 20th century on the future of the Middle East in the 21st century: the Arab-Israeli peace process, the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. An epilogue discusses the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the region and the efforts of the United States and the European Union to build an antiterrorist coalition in the Arab world while at the same time seeking to devise a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Contents:

I. The Persian Gulf and Turkey

1. The Legacy of Iraq's Past and the Promise of Its Future / Judith S. Yaphe 11

2. Iran: Slouching toward the Twenty-first Century / Shaul Bakhash 35

3. The Arabian Peninsula Monarchies from Camp David I to Camp David II / F. Gregory Gause III 62

4. From Swamp to Backyard: The Middle East in Turkish Foreign Policy / Malik Mufti 80

II. The Arab-Israeli Core Area

5. Israel Enters the Twenty-first Century: Hegemonic Crisis in the Holy Land / Ilan Peleg 113

6. The Palestinian National Movement: From Catastrophe to Disaster / Barry Rubin 137

7. Jordan: Walking a Tightrope / Yehuda Lukacs 154

8. Flanks, Balances, and Withdrawals: Syrian Policy in the Middle East since the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Treaty / David W. Lesch 177

9. Lebanon since 1979: Syria, Hizballah, and the War against Peace in the Middle East / Marius Deeb 207

III. Egypt and North Africa

10. Egypt: Moribund between Past and Future / Louis Cantori 229

11. Militant Islam and the State in North Africa / Mary-Jane Deeb 247

IV. The Outside Powers

12. U.S. Policy toward the Middle East / Don Peretz 267

13. Russian Policy in the Middle East under Yeltsin and Putin / Robert O. Freedman 288

The Impact of September 11: The Bush Administration, the European Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict / Robert O. Freedman 331.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held in November, 2000 and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Israel and the Contemporary Middle East, Baltimore Hebrew University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-380) and index.

ISBN:

0813025753

OCLC:

49805892