Description |
xiii, 412 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-407) and index. |
Contents |
Thoughts on a war : ignorant armies clash by night / Edward W. Said -- Portent of a new century / Eqbal Ahmad -- Iraq : years of turbulence / Michel Moushabeck -- From regionalism to nation-state : a short history of Kuwait / Hala Fattah -- Crisis in the Gulf : why Iraq invaded Kuwait / Bishara A. Bahbah -- Battle is joined / Steve Niva -- After the cold war : U.S. middle east policy / Noam Chomsky -- Panama paradigm / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Countdown for a decade : the U.S. build-up for war in the Gulf / Sheila Ryan -- U.S. aid to Israel : funding occupation in the aftermath of the Gulf War / Jeanne Butterfield -- False consensus : George Bush's United Nations / Phyllis Bennis -- Warrior culture / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Peacetime militarism : an epidemic disorder / Jack O'Dell -- Storm at home : the U.S. anti-war movement / Max Elbaum -- Restricting reality : media mind-games and the war / Laura Flanders -- Arab world in the "new world order" / Clovis Maksoud -- Kurds : an old crisis at a new moment / Clovis Maksoud. |
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Politics of linkage : the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Gulf War / Ibrahim Abu-Lughod -- Other occupation : the Palestinian response / Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi -- Gulf Crisis and the economy in the occupied territories / Samir Hulaileh -- From the sealed room : Israel's peace movement during the Gulf War / Stanley Cohen -- Israel and the Gulf War : a view from the Israeli peace movement / Mordechai Bar-On -- Jordan responds to the Gulf Crisis / Mustafa B. Hamarneh -- What choice did Egypt have? / Sherif Hetata -- Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm : the Islamist perspective / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Oil and the Gulf Crisis / Michael Tanzer -- Bushbacking : Britain goes to war / Paul Rogers -- Lost illusions : Europe's peace movement / Daniel Cirera -- South Asia in the wake of the Gulf War : the Pakistan example / Talat Rahman, Lyman Baker -- Human rights and the Gulf Crisis : the verbal strategy of George Bush / Naseer Aruri -- For generations to come : the environmental catastrophe / Penny Kemp -- Desert sin : a post-war journey through Iraq / Louise Cainkar. |
Subject |
Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991.
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Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Influence.
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Persian Gulf Region -- Strategic aspects.
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
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Added Author |
Bennis, Phyllis, 1951-
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Moushabeck, Michel.
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ISBN |
0940793822 (pbk.) : $14.95 ($19.95 Can.) |
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0940793873 : $29.95 ($39.95 Can.) |
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