Critical Issues Facing the Middle East Security, Politics, and Economics

by Russell, James A.

• ISBN13: 9781403972460
• ISBN10: 140397246X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781403983206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, prominent experts analyze the challenges these changes pose to U.S. strategy and policy. They examine the causes of profound economic, political and religious transitions and their implications for hopes of reform. Also examined are such long-term processes as population growth, environmental degradation, and educational failures.

Author Biography

James Russell is Senior Lecturer, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School.

Table of Contents

Introduction--James A. Russell * Political Economy * Long Term Sources of Instability in the Middle East--Alan Richards * Reforming the Rentier State: The Imperatives for Change in the Gulf --Robert Looney * Emerging Political Dynamics * Oslo’s Success, a Militarized Resistance: Changing Opposition Tactics in the Palestinian Territories--Anne Marie Baylouny * Islamization and American Policies--Barak A. Salmoni * Democratic Nation Building in the Arc of Crisis: The Case of the Presidential Election in Afghanistan--Thomas H. Johnson * Regional Security and Stability * The Arab-Israeli Conflict and Regional Stability--Ellen Laipson and Emile Hokayem * Iraq and the New Regional Security Dynamic--Judith Yaphe * Strategy and Policy * Strategy, Policy and War in Iraq: The United States and the Gulf in the 21st Century--James A. Russell

Introduction--James A. Russell * Political Economy * Long Term Sources of Instability in the Middle East--Alan Richards * Reforming the Rentier State: The Imperatives for Change in the Gulf --Robert Looney * Emerging Political Dynamics * Oslo’s Success, a Militarized Resistance: Changing Opposition Tactics in the Palestinian Territories--Anne Marie Baylouny * Islamization and American Policies--Barak A. Salmoni * Democratic Nation Building in the Arc of Crisis: The Case of the Presidential Election in Afghanistan--Thomas H. Johnson * Regional Security and Stability * The Arab-Israeli Conflict and Regional Stability--Ellen Laipson and Emile Hokayem * Iraq and the New Regional Security Dynamic--Judith Yaphe * Strategy and Policy * Strategy, Policy and War in Iraq: The United States and the Gulf in the 21st Century--James A. Russell