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Volume XIII, Winter 2006, Number 4
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Are We Trapped in the War on Terror?   Ian Lustick /Ivan Eland/ Rand Beers/ Edward Luttwak

Presbyterians, Jews and Divestment: The Church Steps Back   Ronald R. Stockton

Volume XIII, Fall 2006, Number 3
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Middle Eastern Views of the United States: What Do the Trends Indicate?   Shibley Telhami/Brian Katulis/ Jon B. Alterman/ Milton Viorst

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy   John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

Volume XIII, Summer 2006, Number 2
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: How Can the U.S. Re-Open for Business to the Arab World?   Edward M. Graham / James Andrew Lewis / Don N. De Marino / William A. Reinsch

Symposium: Is There a Responsible Exit from the Strategic Ambush in Iraq?   Thomas Mattair / Lawrence J. Korb / Barry R. Posen / Gareth Porter

Nuclear Iran: Perils and Prospects   Jahangir Amuzegar

Privatizing Foreign Policy  Lawrence Davidson

Volume XIII, Spring 2006, Number 1
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Saudi Arabia's Accession to the WTO: Is a "Revolution" Brewing?   William Clatanoff / C. Christopher Parlin / Robert Jordan / Charles Kestenbaum / Jean-Francois Seznec

Document: Terms of Saudi Accession  

Forging a New Security Order for the Persian Gulf   Michael Ryan Kraig

Volume XII, Winter 2005, Number 4
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: A Shia Crescent: What Fallout for the U.S.?   Juan Cole / Kenneth Katzman / Karim Sadjapour / Ray Takeyh

Iran and America: Is Rapprochement Finally Possible?   Mark N. Katz

Interview: Gary Hart   Gareth Porter

Volume XII, Fall 2005, Number 3
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Occupied Iraq: One Country, Many Wars   Ivan Eland / Robert Newman / Jeffrey White / W. Patrick Lang

The Third Option in Iraq: A Responsible Exit Strategy   Gareth Porter

The Arabs, Islam and Globalization   Fauzii Najjar

Volume XII, Summer 2005, Number 2
 
Symposium: Democracy: Rising Tide or Mirage?   Marina S. Ottaway / Jillian Schwedler / Shibley Telhami / Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Democracy in the Arab Region: Getting There from Here   Alan Richards

Volume XII, Spring 2005, Number 1
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on "Terror"   Daniel Byman / Michael Scheuer / Anatol Lieven / W. Patrick Lang

A Political-Security Analysis of the Failed Oslo Process   Melissa Boyle Mahle

Book Review: Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

Book Review: Swisher, The Truth about Camp David: The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process

Book Review: The 9/11 Report. Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. Authorized Edition.

 
Volume XI, Winter 2004, Number 4
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Securing U.S. Energy in a Changing World   Frank A. Verrastro / James A. Placke / Alan S. Hegburg

Democratization in Gulf Monarchies: A New Challenge to the GCC   Joseph A. Kéchichian

 
Volume XI, Fall 2004, Number 3
 
Foreword

Conference Report

Kuwaiti, Iraqi and European Perspectives   Sami M. Al-Faraj / Mustafa Alani / Antonia Dimou

U.S.-Arab Cooperation in the Gulf: Are Both Sides Working from the Same Script?   Riad Kahwaji

Potential Egyptian Contribution to a Security Framework in the Gulf   Mohamed Kadry Said

Dilemmas of Democratization in the Middle East   Daniel Neep

America’s “Greater Middle East” and Europe: Key Issues for Dialogue   Völker Perthes

Nuclear Strategy and the Modern Middle East   James A. Russell

The Gulf and a New Middle East Security System   Michael D. Yaffe

Considering Security amidst Strategic Change: The OSCE Experience   Craig G. Dunkerley

Assessing Alternative Security Frameworks for the Persian Gulf   Michael Kraig

 
Volume XI, Summer 2004, Number 2
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: The Geneva Proposals for Peace: Still Viable?   Ziad J. Asali / Marshall Breger / Milton Viorst / Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.

Lessons from Wal-Mart and the Wehrmacht: Team Wolfowitz on Administration in the Information Age   Leila Hudson

Drinking the Kool-Aid   W. Patrick Lang

 
Volume XI, Spring 2004, Number 1
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Saudi Arabia: Enemy or Friend?   David Aufhauser / Frank Anderson / David E. Long / Nathaniel Kern / Hussein Shobokshi

Muslims Pluralize the West, Resist Assimilation   Mustafa Malik

The 2002 Arab Human Development Report: Implications for Democracy   Sami E. Baroudi

 
Volume X, Winter 2003, Number 4
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Imperial Dreams: Can the Middle East Be Transformed?   Kenneth Pollack / W. Patrick Lang / Amy Hawthorne / Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.

Testing the Saudi "Will to Power": Challenges Confronting Prince Abdallah   Joseph A. Kechichian

 
Volume X, Fall 2003, Number 3
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Aftershocks of the Iraq War: What Purposes Have Been Fulfilled?   Judith Yaphe / Kenneth Katzman / Omer Taspinar / Martha Neff Kessler

"Modernity and Economic Development": The "New" American Messianism   Alan Richards

 
Volume X, Summer 2003, Number 2
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Is a Two-state Solution Still Viable?   Stephen P. Cohen / Michael C. Hudson / Nathan Guttman / Khalil E. Jahshan

Killing in the Name of Islam: Al-Qaeda’s Justification for September 11   Quintan Wiktorowicz / John Kaltner

 
Volume X, Spring 2003, Number 1
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: In the Wake of War: Geo-strategy, Terrorism, Oil and Domestic Politics   Leon T. Hadar / Frank Anderson / Fareed Mohamedi / Ian S. Lustick

Is it a War for Oil?   Donald F. Hepburn

 
Volume IX, December 2002, Number 4
 
Symposium: War with Iraq: A Cost-Benefit Analysis   Anthony H. Cordesman / Joseph C. Wilson / Ray Takeyh / Geoffrey Kemp

Interviews from Gaza: What Hamas Wants   Abd Al-Aziz Rantisi / Sheikh Ahmed Yassin / Ismail Abu Shanab / Mahmoud Al-Zahar
Palestinian Options Under Siege   Ziad Abu-Amr / Haider Abdel Shafi

 
Volume IX, September 2002, Number 3
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: The Abdullah Peace Plan: Offer or Ultimatum?   Mamoun Fandy / Edward S. Walker, Jr. / Ofer Grosbard / Michael C. Hudson

The Swing to the Right in U.S. Policy toward Israel and Palestine   Stephen Zunes

 
Volume IX, June 2002, Number 2
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Is Unilateral Withdrawal the Answer for Israel?   Stephen P. Cohen / Shibley Telhami / Yoram Peri / David E. Long

Document: Arab Peace Initiative

Document: U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1397 and 1402

The Forgotten Swamp: Navigating Political Islam   Guilain Denoeux

 
Volume IX, March 2002, Number 1
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: The United States and Saudi Arabia: American Interests and Challenges to the Kingdom in 2002   J. McMillan / A. Cordesman / M. Fandy / F. Mohamedi

The Arrogance of Occupation   Lev Grinberg

 
Volume VIII, December 2001, Number 4
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Negotiating Middle East Peace: Can the Past be a Guide to the Future?   E. Walker / K. Jahshan / Y. Shain / I. Eland

After 19 Years: Sabra and Shatila Remembered   Ellen Siegel

 
Volume VIII, September 2001, Number 3
 
Editor's Note

Symposium: Lebanon and Syria: Internal and Regional Dimensions   M. Kessler / G. Irani / P. Gubser / A.R. Norton

Document: Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee  

Symposium: The End of Dual Containment: Iraq, Iran and Smart Sanctions   K. Katzman / R. Murphy / F. Cameron / R. Litwak / G. Sick / T. Stauffer

The Politics of Hegemony: The United States and Iran   James A. Bill

 
Volume VIII, June 2001, Number 2
 
Editor's Note

SYMPOSIUM: With the "Process" Dead, What are the Prospects for Peace?   W. Patrick Lang / Shibley Telhami / Christopher Ross

Islam in Europe: Quest for a Paradigm   Mustafa Malik

Policy Critique: Report of the WINEP Presidential Study Group   Michael C. Hudson

 
Volume VIII, March 2001, Number 1
 
Editor's Note

SYMPOSIUM: U.S. Policy Toward Iran: Time for a Change?   Richard Allan Roth / Suzanne Maloney / Ray Takeyh / Geoffrey Kemp

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict   Shlomo Gazit / Edward Abington

The Russo-Chechen War: A Threat to Stability in the Middle East and Eurasia?   Brian Glyn Williams

 
Volume VII, October 2000, Number 4
 
Editor's Note

SYMPOSIUM: The Caspian Region and the New Great Powers   David L. Goldwyn / Martha Brill Olcott / Julia Nanay / Thomas R. Stauffer

God's Will: Iranian Democracy and the Islamic Context   Ray Takeyh

The Role of Outside Actors in Afghanistan   Amin Saikal

The Future of Iraq   Gary Sick

Hemmed in by Circumstances: Turkey and Iraq since the Gulf War   Henri J. Barkey

Iraq and the Future of World Oil   Fadhil J. Chalabi

BOOK REVIEW: Tetreault, Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait

BOOK REVIEW: Fuller, Francke, The Arab Shia: The Forgotten Muslims

BOOK REVIEW: Brynen, A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza
 
Volume VII, June 2000, Number 3
 
SYMPOSIUM: The Peace beyond the Peace: What Role for Iran and Iraq?   David Wurmser / Ted Galen Carpenter / Edward Peck / Graham Fuller

Fallacies, Smoke and Pipe Dreams: Forcing Change in Iran and Iraq   James H. Noyes

Elections in Iran: A New Majlis and a Mandate for Reform   Suzanne Maloney

Kuwait's Unhappy Anniversary   Mary Ann Tetreault

Caspain Sea Infrastructure Projects   J. Robinson West / Julia Nanay

China and the Middle East: Cross-Investment in the Energy Sector   Xiaojie Xu

Turkish-Israeli-Iranian Relations in the Nineties: Impact on the Middle East   Bulent Aras

BOOK REVIEW: Rubin, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building

BOOK REVIEW: Chesin, Hutman, Melamed, Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem

BOOK REVIEW: Milton-Edwards, Islamic Politics in Palestine

BOOK REVIEW: Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege

BOOK REVIEW: Meyer, Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
 
Volume VII, February 2000, Number 2
 
SYMPOSIUM: Joining the Global Rules-based Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the GCC   Cecilia Klein / Abdelali Jbili / Kevin R. Taecker / Shafeeq Ghabra

Saudi Arabia's Will to Power   Joseph A. Kechichian

Syria, Israel and the Middle East Peace Process: Past Success and Final Challenges   Martha Neff Kessler

The Modern History of Islamic Jerusalem: Academic Myths and Propaganda   Ghada Talhami

Qadhafi's Libya and the Prospect of Islamic Succession   Ray Takeyh

The Politics of Morocco's "Fight against Corruption"   Guilain Denoeux

BOOK REVIEW: Khashan, Arabs at the Crossroads: Political Identity and Nationalism

BOOK REVIEW: Baaklini, Denoeux, Springborg, Legislative Politics in the Arab World: the Resurgence of Democratic Institutions

BOOK REVIEW: Cohen, Israel and the Bomb

BOOK REVIEW: Halsell, Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture -- and Destruction of Planet Earth

BOOK REVIEW: Moussalli, Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey

BOOK REVIEW: Zahlan, The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
 
Volume VII, October 1999, Number 1
 
SYMPOSIUM: American Muslims And U.S. Foreign Policy   Richard H. Curtiss / Abdurahman Alamoudi / Jameel A-Johnson / Hesham Reda

The State Department and Zionism, 1917-1945: A Reevaluation   Lawrence Davidson

The European Union and the Gulf States: A Growing Partnership   Nivien Saleh

Days of Rage in Tehran   Geneive Abdo

What About Syria?   Martha Kessler / Helena Cobban / Hisham Melhem

Tunisia's First Contested Presidential Elections   Mamoun Fandy / Moncef Cheikhrouhou / Robert H. Pelletreau

Thinking a Way Out of Karabakh   David D. Laitin / Ronald Grigor Suny

BOOK REVIEW: Christison, Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy

BOOK REVIEW: Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
 
Volume VI, June 1999, Number 4
 
EDITOR'S NOTE

A CENTURY IN THIRTY YEARS: SHEIKH ZAYED AND THE UAE

Policy Implications of the Price of Oil Robert R. Copaken / Nathaniel R. Kern / Jim Steenhagen / Geoffrey Kemp

Qadhafi's Libya: The Limits of Optimism Frank Anderson

Electoral Politics in Iran Geneive Abdo

The Religious-Secular Divide in Israeli Politics Shmuel Sandler / Robert O. Freedman / Shibley Telhami

BOOK REVIEW: Hart, Saudi Arabia and the United States, Birth of a Security Partnership

BOOK REVIEW: Long, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

BOOK REVIEW: Fandy, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent

BOOK REVIEW: Karpin and Friedman, Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin

BOOK REVIEW: Nyang, Islam in the United States of America
 
Volume VI, February 1999, Number 3
 
EDITOR'S NOTE

SYMPOSIUM: After Saddam, What Then for Iraq? Ellen Laipson / Rend Rahim Francke / Andrew Parasiliti / Patrick L. Clawson

The Global Financial Crisis and Economic Reform in the Middle East Alan Richards

Developing GCC Stock Markets: The Private-Sector Role Beshr Bakheet

Is Syria Ready for Peace? Obstacles to Integration into the Global Economy David W. Lesch

The Israel-Syria Track Sami G. Hajjar

Brookings-Sadat Forum: Algeria Cameron R. Hume / William B. Quandt

BOOK REVIEW: Hoffman, Inside Terrorism

BOOK REVIEW: Ben-Zvi, Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance

BOOK REVIEW: Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness

BOOK REVIEW: Menashri, ed., Central Asia Meets the Middle East
 
Volume VI, October 1998, Number 2
 
SYMPOSIUM: What are the Costs of No Peace? Martin S. Indyk / Mamoun Fandy / Ian S. Lustick / Robert H. Pelletreau

Offsets in the Middle East Leo G. B. Welt / Dennis B. Wilson

Repairing U.S.-Iranian Relations Graham E. Fuller

The U.S. in the Caspian: The Divergence of Political and Commercial Interests Julia Nanay

President Lahoud's Rise to Power Al J. Venter

Abbas, Through Secret Channels;
Makovsky,Making Peace with the PLO: The Rabin Government's Road to the Oslo Accord;
Savir, The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East
review essay by Michael Rubner

BOOK REVIEW: Peleg, ed., The Middle East Peace Process: Interdisciplinary Perspectives reviewed by Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.

BOOK REVIEW: Bengio, Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
 
Volume VI, June 1998, Number 1
 
BOOK REVIEW: Ma'oz and Pappe, Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within

BOOK REVIEW: Long and Koch, Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century

BOOK REVIEW: Sick and Potter, The Persian Gulf at the Millenium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion

BOOK REVIEW: Brown, Coalition, Coercion and Compromise: Diplomacy of the Gulf Crisis, 1990-91

BOOK REVIEW: Fernea, In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
 
Volume V, January 1998, Number 4
 
Oman's Economy: Back on Track Afshin Molavi

Iran and the Caucasus Svante E. Cornell

Algeria's Islamist Revolution Hamou Amirouche

Hizballah: Radicalism to Pragmatism Augustus Richard Norton
 
Volume V, October 1997, Number 3
 
Gulf Views of U.S. Policy in the Region Abdullah Al-Shayeji

Iran's Democratic Efforts Stephen C. Fairbanks

Why Syria Must Regain the Golan to Make Peace Alon Ben-Meir

Policy Entrepreneurs in Washington M.A. Muqtedar Khan
 
Volume V, May 1997, Number 2
 
The U.S.-Saudi and U.S.-Gulf Commercial Relationship Jan H. Kalicki

The Function of Rogue States in U.S. Middle East Policy Stephen Zunes
 
Volume V, January 1997, Number 1
 
Has Israel Annexed East Jerusalem? Ian S. Lustick

Time to Modify Our Gulf Policy William A. Rugh
 
Volume IV, October 1996, Number 4
 
Syria and Israel: Keeping the Peace in Lebanon Frederic C. Hof
 
Volume I, December 1992, Number 4
 
Recommendations for U.S. Arab-Israeli Policy Thomas R. Mattair
 
Winter 1990-91, Number 35
 
Jewish Criticism of Zionism Edward C. Corrigan
 
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