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Title Critical issues facing the Middle East : security, politics, and economics / edited by James A. Russell.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  355.033056 C869 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 224 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series Initiatives in strategic studies--issues and policies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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, 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.
Subject National security -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Defenses.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Middle East -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Added Author Russell, James A. (James Avery), 1958-
ISBN 140397246X
9781403972460
Standard No. IG# 140397246X
YDXCP 2256015
NLGGC 293208352
NZ1 10630790
AU@ 000040051438

 
    
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