The Middle East
January 2004
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Title: Making War, Making Peace: The Middle East Entangles America
Author: Augustus Richard Norton
"In Iraq the United States appears to have checkmated itself, maneuvered into the calamitous position of being unable to exit easily or stay safely."
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Title: Bringing Democracy to the Arab World
Author: Joshua Muravchik
"Are the Arabs capable of democracy? And if so, can Americans be the agents of their transformation? The answer, of course, is that no one knows. The lack of a single democratic Arab government gives grounds for skepticism....But there is reason to be skeptical of the skepticism."
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Title: Reclaiming Iraq from the Baathists
Author: Judith S. Yaphe
"Saddam may be gone but many Iraqis still think as they were taught to think: the United States is our enemy and helping the us occupation is unpatriotic. These are mindsets that may be hard to change, even if Baathism as a political movement is banned. It could require a generational shift, in which case there is little now that the United States....or any Iraqi provisional governing council can do."
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Title: America's Iraq Strategy: Democratic Chimeras, Regional Realities
Author: Barak A. Salmoni
"When us policy makers discuss the democratization of Iraq and the Middle East, have they set out....concrete criteria for what that means?....Have they put together the indicators for when it is time to go home? Have they established, in short, what is enough democracy, and who decides?"
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Title: Saudi Arabia Challenged
Author: F. Gregory Gause III
"It would be unwise to bet against the Saudi monarchy, based on its track record of staying in power. But the odds are getting shorter."
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Title: A Woman's Place: Democratization in the Middle East
Author: Nikki R. Keddie
"Women's struggles, along with the forces of modernization, have increased the public roles open to women in the Muslim world despite the growing power of Islamism, and this expansion of women's roles constitutes in itself a force for democratization."
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Title: The Palestinian State: Division and Despair
Author: Sara Roy
"The tragic ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis shields a greater tragedy currently unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the dismemberment of the Palestinian economy."
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Title: Is the Two-State Solution Dead?
Author: Gary Sussman
"A binational Israeli-Palestinian state "may come to be viewed as preferable to a two-state arrangement or a single polity in which winner takes all-and loser loses all...The politics of accommodation and power sharing may prove to be the only viable alternative to endless war or brutal domination by one community over another."
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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: Middle East
A map of the Middle East.
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