The Middle East
January 2005
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January Article Abstracts
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Title: The Limits of Shock and Awe: America in the Middle East
Author: Augustus Richard Norton and Farhad Kazemi
"Never before has a country committed itself to so fundamental and dramatic a transformation of a major region of the world as the United States has in the Middle East since 2001. . . . It remains to be seen how well the rhetoric of promoting reform will weather the experience of promoting reform."
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Title: Iraq: From Insurgency to Civil War?
Author: Ahmed S. Hashim
"After the successful but destructive assault on Falluja, the Sunni Arabs are not merely alienated; they are outraged, and their support for the insurgency has increased. More ominously, a large number of Sunni see no future for their community in the new Iraq."
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Title: After Arafat
Author: Glenn E. Robinson
"Arafat's death provides that rare historical opportunity for enormous and generally beneficial change to take place in Palestine. . . . [But] Palestine's comparative weakness, its political economy, and the occupation are not upended so easily. Neither are its fundamental requirements for a comprehensive peace with Israel."
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Title: Politicide: Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians
Author: Baruch Kimmerling
"What is Sharon's plan? It is nothing less than the politicide of the Palestinian people: a combined military, political, diplomatic, and psychological process that has, as its ultimate goal, the dissolution of the Palestinians' existence as a legitimate socially, politically, and economically independent entity."
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Title: Iran, the Status Quo Power
Author: Mohsen M. Milani
"Iran appears ready to discuss the future of Iraq as well as other security issues with the United States. It remains uncertain for Tehran whether a 'tactical consensus' on Iraq could . . . lead to a marked improvement in us-Iran relations."
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Title: Voices within Islam: Four Perspectives on Tolerance and Diversity
Author: Bahman Baktiari and Augustus Richard Norton
An author, an engineer, a reformist, and an ayatollah offer glimpses into a brave and probing debate that is gaining momentum in the Muslim world.
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in November 2004, country by country, day by day.
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Title: The Middle East
A map of the Middle East.
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