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Critical issues facing the Middle East : security, politics, and economics /

Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, prominent experts analyze the challenges these changes pose to US strategy and policy. They examine the causes of profound economic, political and religious transitions and their implications for hopes of...

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Other Authors: Russell, James A. (James Avery), 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
National security > Middle East.
Computer network resources.
International relations.
international relations.
Middle East > Defenses.
Middle East > Politics and government > 21st century.
Middle East > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781403983206
1403983208
9781403972460
140397246X
1281369829
9781281369826
9786611369828
6611369821
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Theoretical Overview
  • Proliferation, Asymmetric War, and the Contemporary Threat Environment; S. Blank
  • Part II: Middle East Case Studies
  • Continuity and Change in Israeli Strategic Thinking: Reflections in the Wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom; A. Cohen
  • Iran at the Strategic Crossroads; R. Takeyh
  • Syrian WMD Programs in Context; M. Jouejati
  • Syrian Weapons of Mass Destruction; A. Hashim
  • A.Q. Khan, Proliferation Networks, and the Nuclear Slippery Slope; C. Clary
  • Saudi Arabia in the 21st Century: A New Security Calculus?; J.A. Russell
  • Saudi Arabia: The Nuclear Conundrum; G. Segell
  • Tracking and Assessing Nuclear Issues in Open Sources: The Case of Libya; W. Bowen
  • Part III: Policy Implications
  • Iraq and Libya: Nonproliferation through Regime Change or Change in a Regime?; R. Litwak
  • Counterproliferation vs. Nonproliferation in the Middle East after Saddam: Lessons from Iraq and Libya; M. Friend
  • A Demand Side Strategy for Regional Security and Nonproliferation in the Persian Gulf; M. Kraig & R. Kahwaji
  • Threat Reduction and the Middle East; R. Gottemoeller.
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction / James A. Russell
  • [pt. 1]. Political economy
  • 2. Long-term sources of instability in the Middle East / Alan Richards
  • 3. Reforming the rentier state : the imperatives for change in the Gulf / Robert Looney
  • [pt. 2]. Emerging political dynamics
  • 4. Oslo's success, a militarized resistance : changing opposition tactics in the Palestinian territories / Anne Marie Baylouny
  • 5. Islamization and American policy / Barak A. Salmoni
  • 6. Democratic nation building in the arc of crisis : the case of the Presidential election in Afghanistan / Thomas H. Johnson
  • [pt. 3]. Regional security and stability
  • 7. The Arab-Israeli conflict and regional stability / Ellen Laipson and Emile Hokayem
  • 8. Iraq and the new regional security dynamic / Judith S. Yaphe
  • [pt. 4]. Strategy and policy
  • 9. Strategy, policy, and war in Iraq : the United States and the Gulf in the twenty-first century / James A. Russell
  • Index.

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