The Middle East
January 2002
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January Article Abstracts
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Title: America's Approach to the Middle East: Legacies, Questions, and Possibilities
Author: Augustus Richard Norton
"Will America now define national security as it did half a century ago to see the betterment of others' conditions as key to ensuring its own safety and well-being? Or will it be satisfied merely to aggressively police the frontiers of hostility at home and abroad to reduce the likelihood of a new terrorist-inflicted disaster?"
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Title: Why Peace Failed: An Oslo Autopsy
Author: Sara Roy
"The ongoing crisis among Israelis and Palestinians is not primarily the result of a failed summit, poor implementation, or Netanyahu's intransigence: it is instead the result of a 'peace' process that by design altered the political, economic, and physical landscape of the Palestinian territories in a manner that intensified rather than mitigated Palestinian dispossession, deprivation, and oppression, and so precluded a fair and workable settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
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Title: Iran's Liberal Revolution?
Author: Bahman Baktiari, Haleh Vaziri
"If [Khatami] does not seize the moment and conservatives continue to resist change, Iranian citizens will become increasingly impatient: their questions already are no longer 'Why reform?' or 'What kind of reform?' They now urgently ask 'How?' and 'When?' "
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Title: Networks of Dissent: Islamism and Reform in Saudi Arabia
Author: Gwenn Okruhlik
"Portrayals of internal politics as contests between United States-allied 'moderates' and puritanical 'Wahhabis' are grossly oversimplified. So too is a menu that offers two stark choices: an absolute monarchy tilting toward the West or a revolutionary Islamist regime hostile to the West."
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Title: The Politics of Emergency Rule in Egypt
Author: Diane Singerman
"What has warranted the Egyptian government's . . . exceptional regulation and control of political life over the course of more than five decades? Clearly, Islamist radicals who have been willing to use violence against the state and civilians outside the parameters of the law warrant strong measures. . . . [Yet] these laws have remained in place even as the government has claimed that its policies have vanquished the Islamist threat."
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Title: Bin Laden, the Arab "Street," and the Middle East's Democracy Deficit
Author: Dale F. Eickelman
"Bin Laden speaks in the vivid language of popular Islamic preachers, and builds on a deep and widespread resentment against the West . . . The lack of formal outlets to express opinion on public concerns has created [a] democracy deficit in much of the Arab world, and this makes it easier for terrorists such as bin Laden, asserting that they act in the name of religion, to hijack the Arab street."
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Title: The Other Allies: Russia, India, and Afghanistan's United Front
Author: Thomas Withington
"Russia and India can argue that without their support, the United Front would have not defeated the Taliban. . . . Because of this instrumental support, India and Russia will undoubtedly expect to have a voice in Afghanistan's future."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in November, country by country, day by day.
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Title: A map of the Middle East.
A map of the Middle East.
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