MidEast: MERIA News May 1998, Issue #8

[Maxine Nunn]

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MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (MERIA)
MERIA NEWS
A Magazine on Middle East Studies/1998:Issue 8/May 1998
Circulation 3,826
*Serving Readers Throughout the Middle East and in 56 Countries*
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CONTENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA JOURNAL VOL. 2, NO. 2; OFFER TO AUTHORS;
MERIA INDEX
1. NEW PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
2. WEBSITES/GROUPS ONLINE
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
5. RESEARCH QUERIES--PLEASE HELP
6. AUTHOR'S ALERTS (writers report on their books & articles)
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
8. MERIA INDEX: ALL ARTICLES FROM JOURNAL, NEWS AND BOOKS
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IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA JOURNAL VOL. 2, NO. 2 (May 1998): =

In this its sixth issue, MERIA Journal deals with a variety of
topics. Robert Freedman presents a comprehensive survey of Russia's
resurgence in the region. Eyal Zisser gives a rare, detailed look
into Syrian decisionmaking. Twenty years after the start of Iran's
revolution, Emmanuel Sivan and Barry Rubin provide complementary
analyses on the Islamic movements' status and future. An essay by
Naomi Weinberger reconsiders the consistencies and contrasts
between two critical historic moments for Israelis and
Palestinians. As part of MERIA's ongoing interest in Middle East-
Asia relations, P.R. Kumarswamy discusses India-Israel relations
and Bates Gill analyzes China's Arms Exports to Iran.

1 Robert O. Freedman, "Russia and the Middle East: The Primakov
Era"
2 Emmanuel Sivan, "Why Radical Muslims Aren't Taking Over
Governments" (Courtesy of Middle East Quarterly)
3 Barry Rubin, "Islamic Radicalism in the Middle East: A Survey
and Balance Sheet"
4 Essay: Naomi Weinberger, "Debate Over Partition: 1948 and
1998"
5 Eyal Zisser, "Decisionmaking in Asad's Syria" (Courtesy of
Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
6 P.R.Kumaraswamy, "Strategic Partnership Between India and
Israel"
7 Bates Gill, "Chinese Arms Exports to Iran" (Courtesy of Asia
and Pacific Rim Institute, American Jewish Committee).
As always, you will receive the issue one article at a time in
seven postings. If you miss an item, please ask for a copy.
OFFER TO AUTHORS: If you have a recent book or article on a
Middle East topic in any language, we will publish brief summaries
in MERIA News, Section 6. Items should be no more than 50 words for
books or 30 words for articles. Include: title, periodical or
publisher, publication date; topic; and main themes or theses.
Write: <be...@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il>.
MERIA INDEX: An index to all articles published in MERIA
Journal, News and Books is available at the end of this issue. It
will also be added to our homepage.
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1. NEW PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Iraq documentation:
Latest UNSCOM report (UN weapons' inspections):
<http://www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/s/s98-332.htm>.
Report of the Special Group [palace investigations]:
<http://www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/s/s98-326.htm>.
Recent Congressional Research Service report on Iraq's
chemical and biological weapons capabilities: =

<http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/98042705 npo.html>
UN Group Of Experts' Executive Summary report on Iraqi oil
industry: <http://www.mees.com/un-iraq.htm>
Solingen, Etel. Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and
Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press,
1998). A book on emerging regional orders, with an extensive
treatment of the Middle East.
The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation, Institute of Asian
and African Studies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem has a new =

publication series, "Collected papers in Arabic and Islam." The
first volume is by Aryeh Levin, Professor of Arabic at the Hebrew
University, "Arabic Linguistic thought and dialectology." (352 pp.
and index). For information: Yohanan Friedmann
<msyf...@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
The online magazine Horizon 3 on Creating the Culture of Peace
can be seen at: http://tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/home.html
Chatty, Dawn & Rabo, Annika (eds) Organising Women: Formal and
Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East 1997 Berg/Cross-Cultural
Perspectives on Women. University of Oxford Oriental Institute,
<near...@orinst.ox.ac.uk>
Nettler, Ron; Cooper, John & Mahmoud, Muhammad (eds.), Islam
& Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond. March 1998, I.B. Taurus
& Co. Ltd. London. From a Workshop sponsored by the Near Eastern
Studies Programme, Modern Middle Eastern Studies and St. Antony's
College, Oxford. Islam and Modernity brings together the ideas of
a number of contemporary modernist and liberal Muslim thinkers. It
exposes an important intellectual current in Islamic thought, which
will be new to many Western readers.
"Lebanon: A Beginners' Guide," Sunday Times, March 22, 1998:
http://www.idrel.com.lb/idrel/shufimafi/archives/docs/st-leb9803.
htm
Rex Brynen, Bahgat Korany and Paul Noble, Political
Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World, Vol. 1,
Theoretical Perspectives; Political Liberalization and
Democratization in the Arab World, Vol. 2, Case Studies. Both from
Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Adam Jones, University of British Columbia, Press, Regime and
Society in Jordan Since 1989, Interuniversity Consortium for Arab
Studies (Montreal), "Montreal Studies on the Contemporary Arab
Studies" occasional paper series:
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/adamj/jordan.htm
Yossi Katz, Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's
Partition Plan in the Mandate Era, Frank Case, 1998, hardcover and
paperback. About the 1937 Peel Commission partition plan. Yossi
Katz, Between Jerusalem and Hebron: Jewish Settlement in the Hebron
Mountains and the Etzion Bloc in the Pre-State Period, Bar-Ilan
University Press, 1998.
New books from the Dayan Center: Martin Kramer, Fadlallah: The
Compass of Hizballah [Hebrew]; Meir Litvak (editor), Islam and
Democracy in the Arab World [Hebrew]; Elie Rekess (editor), The
Arabs in Israeli Politics [Hebrew]. Write: <http://www.dayan.org> =

Brian Allen and Monica Neal (editors) "The Middle East in
America's Global Agneda," 1997 Policy Conference of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy," September 1997
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2. WEBSITES/GROUPS ONLINE
The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies,
Tel Aviv University, announces the opening of its home page,
<http://www.dayan.org> The site offers a look at Center projects,
researchers, collections and events. In addition, researchers may
read about new Dayan Center publications and order them, online.
Access to the Center's computerized database is also offered.
The Near Eastern Studies Programme, U of Oxford has updated
and redone its website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~neareast/nesp.htm
Forum for Central Asian Studies, Harvard University, is
developing a range of useful resources on that region, including:
1) a Guide to Scholars of Central Asia, and 2) a Guide to
Scholarly Resources for the Study of Central Asia (covering
research institutions, libraries, archives, etc.) In addition we
offer information resources which have proven to be of broad
interest: 1) the CentralAsia-L Announcement List for Central Asian
Studies, and 2) the Central Asian Studies World Wide website, For
information, write: Dr. John S. Schoeberlein, Director
<scho...@fas.harvard.edu> or see the Central Asia Forum Website:
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/> and
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/>
Israel's Defense Ministry has opened a new site
<http://www.mod.gov.il> with information on its structure and
activities including a catalog of ministry publications. It also
opened a new site devoted to fallen soldiers: www.izkor.gov.il =

National Information Center, Official Jordanian site
http://petra.nic.gov.jo/
The best single site for North Africa seems to be Maghreb Net
and its many sub-sites which include a comprehensive link list:
http://www.maghreb.net/
Also interesting for news stories on Maghreb:
Maghreb Confidentiel (French)
<http://www.dominis.com/Zines/ByCategory/Political/1814.html>;
IPS news (English) http://www.link.no/IPS/eng/serv/MM.html;
(Dutch) Het Midden-Oosten en de Maghreb
<http://infobot.link.no/IPS/ned/serv/MM.html> and
(Spanish) Medio Oriente y Maghreb
http://www.link.no/IPS/esp/serv/MM.html
Maghreb agence press
http://global.globale.net/~maroc/page6-3.html
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3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
Maghreb-List Mailing List is hosted by Maghreb.Net but we had
some technical difficulties getting it to work. You can subscribe
at: http://www.maghreb.net/lists/maghreb-list.html
H-MIDEAST-MEDIEVAL List Sponsored by H-Net: Humanities &
Social Sciences On-line Michigan State University, and the Middle
East Medievalists. Sponsored by Middle East Medievalists (MEM). MEM
publishes Al-'Usur Al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East
Medievalist twice yearly (April and October), maintains a website
<http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Hist/mem/index.html>, and meets
annually in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association. =

Information about H-MIDEAST-MEDIEVAL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/ =

Co-editors: James E. Lindsay <JLin...@vines.ColoState.EDU>, Paul
M. Cobb paul...@mta.wfu.edu; Steven C. Judd
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kho...@humanitas.ucsb.edu; Katherine Howe Lang lan...@uwec.edu. To
subscribe, send from the account you wish subscribed to
LIST...@h-net.msu.edu; abbreviate your institution where possible:
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information: H-MidEast...@h-net.msu.edu
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4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
The Israel Women's Network Center for Resources and Policy
Research announces a research fellowship of 10,000 shekels [about
$2,800] to be granted to a Palestinian Israeli woman doing research
for the MA or Phd on topics related to work and employment of
Palestinian Israeli women in Israel. Candidates should send an
abstract including the name of their academic institution, the name
of their research advisor, the research plan, its possible policy
implications, the present stage of the research and the date of its
expected conclusion. Please send the above information no later
than June 1, 1998 to: Dr. Nira Reiss, Research Coordinator, The
Center for Resources and Policy Research, The Israel Women's
Network <nre...@post.tau.ac.il>
International Institute for Political and Economic Studies
(IIPES), a two-week summer institute in Athens and Olympia, Greece
for students from the Middle East, the Balkans and the US. It is
sponsored by The Fund for American Studies, a non-profit
organization in Washington, DC, the Greek Association for Atlantic
and European Cooperation, and Georgetown University. The program
costs $2500 (covering tuition, housing, meals and books) and
scholarships are available. Some USIS offices help with travel
funds and the program has 2 full scholarships for Israelis. See
http://www.iipes.org or write Leslie Berlin Director, IIPES Greece =

<ii...@tfas.org>
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6. AUTHOR'S ALERTS (writers report on their books & articles)
Mark D. Mandeles, Thomas C. Hone, and Sanford S. Terry,
Managing "Command and Control" in the Persian Gulf War (Westport,
Connecticut: Praeger, 1996). During the Gulf War, the U.S. Air
Force built a very complicated organization to control large
numbers of air sorties. Officers at each level of the organization
believed they were able to manage the chaos of war. Yet, when their
separate activities are pieced together it appears that no one
understood what was happening or how well the air campaign was
proceeding. There was little appreciation of the implications of
complex organizations for military command and control. Against a =

smarter and more aggressive foe, the system may well have failed.
Etel Solingen, "Democratization in the Middle East: Quandaries
of the Peace Process." Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 3 (July
1996). An article on the connections between democratization and
the peace process.
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7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
NEW LISTINGS
May 7 Ramat Gan, Israel, U.S. Policy in the Middle East,
launching the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, U.S. Policy
Project, with US Ambassador Edward Walker, "Current US Middle East
Policy; Prof. Barry Rubin, "US Policy and the Peace Process";
Shmuel Gordon, "U.S. Military Reach in the Gulf," Prof. Gerald
Steinberg, "U.S. Responses to Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction in the Middle East," Max Singer, "American Strategy
toward Iraq"; Joshua Teitelbaum, "The Gulf States and Dual
Containment." <bro...@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il>
May 7 Binghamton, NY, Rashid Khalidi, Director, Center for
International Studies University of Chicago "Truth, Lies and
Videotape: The Media and the Middle East Peace Process" Contact:
lda...@binghamton.edu
May 10 Haifa, Israel, Recent Trends in Research on Terror and
the Fight Against Terror, University of Haifa, Political Science
Department. Conference in Honor of the late Prof. Avner Yaniv. =

May 10-12 Montreal, Canada, Conference on Algeria, U de Laval.
An extremely comprehensive meeting which will include all aspects
of Algeria, film, photo exhibit, discussion of Algerian conflict.
Write: Lise Garon. <Lise....@com.ulaval.ca> =

May 11-14 Oxford, England, The Shi'i Century and the Iranian
Milieu. International Research Workshop. Wolfson College. Contact:
near...@orinst.ox.ac.uk
May 13 Oxford, England, Israel's Next Fifty years: A Symposium
Contact: The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton
Manor. http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/ochjs/index.html
May 18 Tel Aviv, Israel, Dayan Center, Prof. Gudrun Kramer,
"Law and Order: The Application of the Shari`a in the Middle East,"
5:30PM <daya...@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
May 19 Tel Aviv, Israel, Dayan Center, Conference on Iran
<daya...@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
May 21 Ramat Gan, Israel, BESA Center for Strategic Studies,
Patrick Clawson, "Economic Factors Affecting Middle East Politics,"
bro...@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
May 22-24, Bethesda, Maryland, The Society for Iranian Studies
Second Biennial Conference. Write: <http://www.iranian-studies.org/
For the program: http://www.iranian-studies.org/confProg.html
To register: <http://www.iranian-studies.org/registform.html
June 5, 1998, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Ten Years after
`Anfal': Causes and Consequences of the Politics of Genocide,"
conference on Iraqi treatment of Kurds with participation of Joost
Hiltermann, Sami Zubaida, Isam al-Khafaji). University of
Amsterdam, information: Paul Aarts, aa...@pscw.uva.nl
August 12 - 14, Oxford, England, 9th International Conference
on Turkish Linguistics: Oxford University Oriental Institute,
near...@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Previously listed and all future events are in our Global
Events Calendar on the MERIA homepage and previous MERIA News
issues.
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8. MERIA INDEX
Following is a list of all MERIA Journal, MERIA NEWS, and
MERIAbooks articles as of June 1998 which you might like to keep
for reference. (It includes articles from the forthcoming 1998/8
MERIA News.) These articles are available for downloading from our
homepage (except for those marked with *) or by order from
MERIAbooks (except those marked with #). This list will be
permanently maintained on our homepage and updated as necessary.
Works are crossreferenced as needed between different categories. =

Index of MERIA Journal, MERIA News, and MERIAbooks articles

MJ=3DMeria Journal; MN=3DMeria News
P=3DAvailable in printed form from...
*Available only in a MERIAbook; #Not available in a MERIAbook
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Key to MERIAbooks: BR=3DRubin Essays on the Middle East's New Era
CA=3DCentral Asia
E=3DEconomics
G=3DGulf Strategic Issues
I=3DIsrael =

R=3DRadical Movements
T=3DTurkey =

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TOPICS:
Algeria
Central Asia
Economics
Egypt
Gulf Security
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Palestinians
Peace Process
Radical Movements
Regional
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
U.S. Middle East Policy

ALGERIA
Rami G. Khouri, "Algeria's Terrifying But Unsurprising Agony"
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (January 1997)
R
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "The Islamic Challenge in North Africa" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
R

CENTRAL ASIA
Gareth M. Winrow, "Turkey and the Newly Independent States of
Central Asia, Central Asia and the Transcaucasus."
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
CA
Bulent Aras and George K. Foster, "Turkey and the Azerbaijani Oil
Controversies."* =

CA
Bulent Aras, "U.S.-Central Asian Relations: A View From Turkey" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 1 (January 1997)
CA

ECONOMICS
Eliyahu Kanovsky, "The Middle East Economies"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
E
Paul Rivlin, "Leadership and the Economy in the Arab World" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
E
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EGYPT
Kenneth Stein, "Egyptian-Israeli Relations, 1973-1997"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
I

GULF SECURITY
Darius Bazargan, "Interview on Iraqi Weapons Monitoring with =

Terrence Taylor, UNSCOM inspector for biological weapons." =

MN 1997/6 (June 1997)
G
Dariush Bazargan, "Iran: Politics, The Military and Gulf Security" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
G
Seth Carus, "Iranian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Capabilities"
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998) =

G
Bates Gill, "Chinese Arms Exports to Iran"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1998)
P: Asia and Pacific Rim Institute, American Jewish Committee.
Turki al-Hamad, "Will Gulf Monarchies Work Together?" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
G
P: Middle East Quarterly
Peter Jones, "New Directions in Middle East Deterrence"# =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997) =

Joseph Kostiner, "State, Islam and Opposition in Saudi Arabia" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
R
Laurie Mylroie, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction and the 1997
Gulf Crisis"
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (January 1997)
G
Kenneth M. Pollack, "Current Iraqi Military Capabilities"
MN 1998/4 (February 1998)
G
P: Washington Institute for Near East Studies

IRAN
Dariush Bazargan, "Iran: Politics, The Military and Gulf Security" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
G
Seth Carus, "Iranian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Capabilities"
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998)
G
Patrick Clawson and Charles Freeman, "Dual Containment--Revive It
or Replace It? (January 1998)
MN 1998/2
P: Washington Institute for Near East Policy. =

Bates Gill, "Chinese Arms Exports to Iran"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1998)
P: Asia and Pacific Rim Institute, American Jewish Committee.

IRAQ
Darius Bazargan, "Interview on Iraqi Weapons Monitoring with =

Terrence Taylor, UNSCOM inspector for biological weapons." =

MN 1997/6 (June 1997) =

G
Ofra Bengio, "Crossing the Rubicon?: Iraq and the Arab-Israeli =

Peace Process" (March 1998)
MJ Vol. 2 No.1
G
Laurie Mylroie, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction and the 1997
Gulf Crisis"
MJ Vol. 2 No.1 (March 1998)
G
Kenneth M. Pollack, "Current Iraqi Military Capabilities"
MN 1998/4 (February 1998)
G
P: Washington Institute for Near East Studies

ISRAEL
Stuart Cohen, "Portrait of the New Israeli Soldier"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997) =

I
P: Israel Studies; BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg: "Israel's Lebanon Policy"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
I
P.R.Kumaraswamy, "Strategic Partnership Between India and Israel"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1998)
P: BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Gregory Mahler, "Israel's New Electoral System: Effects on Policy
and Politics."
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
I
Joel Peters, "Israel Under Netanyahu: "The Current Situation in
Israeli Politics" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 1 (January 1997)
I
Barry Rubin, "External Influences on Israel's 1996 Election"*
R
P: Israel Affairs
Barry Rubin, "Israel, The PA and the Arab States"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997)
R
P: BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Barry Rubin, "Notes on Turkey-Israel Relations
MN 1997/7 (July 1997)
T
Kenneth Stein, "Egyptian-Israeli Relations, 1973-1997"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
I

LEBANON
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg: "Israel's Lebanon Policy"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
I
Habib C. Malik, "Is There Still a Lebanon?"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998)
P: Middle East Quarterly
Eyal Zisser, "Hizballah in Lebanon: At the Crossroads"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
R

PALESTINIANS
Barry Rubin, "After Arafat: Succession and Stability in Palestinian
Politics" (March 1998)
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1
R
Barry Rubin, "Israel, The PA and the Arab States"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997)
R
P: BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Barry Rubin, Misperceptions and Perfect Understanding: The U.S.
and PLO"*
R
Barry Rubin, "The PLO Charter Revision: A Crossroads in Palestinian
Politics"*
R
Khalil Shikaki, "Palestinian Public Opinion, The Peace Process and
Political Violence#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1

PEACE PROCESS =

Ben Mollov & Musa Isa Barhoum, "Building Religious and Cultural =

Bridges Between Palestinian & Israeli University Students#
MN 1998/5 (March 1998)
Ofra Bengio, "Crossing the Rubicon?: Iraq and the Arab-Israeli =

Peace Process"
MJ Vol. 2, No.1
G
Barry Rubin, "Defining the New Middle East"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
R
Barry Rubin, "Is the Arab-Israeli Conflict Over?"*
R
Barry Rubin, "Israel, The PA and the Arab States"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997)
R
P: BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Khalil Shikaki, "Palestinian Public Opinion, The Peace Process and
Political Violence"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998)
Naomi Weinberger, "Debate Over Partition: 1948 and 1998"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1998)

RADICAL MOVEMENTS
A. Nizar Hamzeh, "Islamism in Lebanon: A Guide"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
P: Middle East Quarterly
Ely Karmon, "Radical Islamic Groups in Turkey"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
R
Rami G. Khouri, "Algeria's Terrifying But Unsurprising Agony"
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998)
R
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "The Islamic Challenge in North Africa" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
R
Barry Rubin, "Costs and Benefits for State Sponsors of Terrorism"*
R
Barry Rubin, "Islamic Radicalism in the Middle East: A Survey and
Balance Sheet"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (March 1998)
Emmanuel Sivan, "Why Radical Muslims Aren't Taking Over
Governments"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (March 1998)
P: Middle East Quarterly
Eyal Zisser, "Hizballah in Lebanon: At the Crossroads"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
R

REGIONAL
Gabi Sheffer, "Middle Eastern Diasporas"#
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997) =

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "Middle East States in the 21st Century"# =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997) =

Tony Allan, "Watersheds and Problemsheds: Explaining the Absence of
Armed Conflict Over Water in the Middle East"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998)
Barry Rubin, "North Korea's Threat to the Middle East and the =

Middle East's Threat to Asia"*
R

RUSSIA
Middle East Briefing, "Russia's New Middle East Policy"# =

MN 1997/6 (June 1997) =

Robert O. Freedman, "Russia and the Middle East: The Primakov Era"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1998)

SAUDI ARABIA
Joseph Kostiner, "State, Islam and Opposition in Saudi Arabia" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
R

SYRIA
Eyal Zisser, "Decisionmaking in Asad's Syria"#
MJ Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1998)
P: Washington Institute for Near East Policy

TURKEY
Bulent Aras and George K. Foster, "Turkey and the Azerbaijani Oil
Controversies"* =

CA
Bulent Aras, "U.S.-Central Asian Relations: A View From Turkey =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 1 (January 1997)
CA
Bilge Criss, "Turkish Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 1 (January 1997)
T

M. Lutfullah Karaman, "Tunali Hilmi: Ottomanism to Turkism"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
T
Ersin Kalaycioglu, "The Logic of Contemporary Turkish Politics"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 3 (September 1997)
T
Ely Karmon, "Radical Islamic Groups in Turkey"
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
R, T
Burcak Keskin, "Political Participation of Turkish Women" =

MJ Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 1997)
T
Kemal Kirisci and Bulent Aras, Roundtable: "Four Questions on
Recent Turkish Politics and Foreign Policy"
MJ Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1998)
T
Kemal Kirisci, "Post Cold-War Turkish Security and the Middle =

East."
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
T
Konuralp Pamukcu, "Water-Related Cooperation Between Turkey and
Israel."*
T
Barry Rubin, "Notes on Turkey-Israel Relations
MN 1997/7 (July 1997)
T
Gareth M. Winrow, "Turkey and the Newly Independent States of
Central Asia, Central Asia and the Transcaucasus."
MJ Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997)
CA

U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY
Patrick Clawson and Charles Freeman, "Dual Containment--Revive It
or Replace It?
MN 1998/2 (July 1998)
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Robert J. Lieber, "U.S. Middle East Policy in The Clinton =

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MJ Vol. 1 No. 1 (January 1997)
Barry Rubin, "U.S. Strategy in a Post-Cold War Middle East" *
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Barry Rubin, Misperceptions and Perfect Understanding: The U.S.
and PLO"*
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Professor Barry Rubin
Senior Resident Scholar, BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Executive Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs
personal box: rub...@mail.biu.ac.il