Middle East

<p>The Middle East provides a thematic analysis of major forces and trends in contemporary Middle East and a thorough examination of individual countries in the region. This comprehensive anthology the first in more than two decades explores the political environment religious and ethnic factors economic factors the Arab world the Palestinians and the territories Israel the role of the superpowers and the Middle East's relationship with the rest of the world. Every informed reader will want to consult The Middle East to understand this important and complex area of the world.<b>Contents (partial): </b>William L. Cleveland Sources of Arab Nationalism; Carl Leiden Arab Nationalism Today; Opoku Agyeman Pan-Africanism versus Pan-Arabism; Elbani Hermassi The Maghrib and the Middle East Conflict; Lenore G. Martin Boundary Disputes in the Persian Gulf; Bernard Lewis The Return of Islam; Daniel Pipes Understanding Islam in Politics; Emanuel Gutmann Religion and Its Role in National Integration in Israel; George Moutafakis Minorities in the Modern Middle East Societies; Stuart E. Colie The Shiites and the Lebanese Tragedy; Kenneth J. Arrow Energy; Fred M. Gottheil Saudi Arabian Economic Power; Eliyahu Kanovsky Arab Oil Power; Victor T. Le Vine The Arab World in the 1980s; Bernard Lewis Islamic Political Movements; Raymond N. Habiby and Fariborz Ghavidel Khumayni's Islamic Republic; James P. Jankowski Nationalism in Twentieth Century Egypt; Sheikh R. Ali The Iran-Iraq War; Raymond N. Habiby Quadhafi's New Islamic Scientific Socialist Society; Moshe Aumann Land Ownership in Palestine; Fred M. Gottheil Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel; Yehoshua Porat The Palestinian-Arab Nationalist Movement; Yonah Alexander The Nature of the PLO; Sammy Smooha and John E. Hofrnan Arab-Jewish Coexistence in Israel; Michael Curtis The Evolution of Israeli Politics; Aaron S. Klieman Zionist Diplomacy and Israeli Foreign Policy; Jay Adams Assessing Israel as a 'Strategist Asset'; Saul B. Cohen Jerusalem's Unity and West Bank Autonomy; Meron Benvenisti Postive Thinking in Jerusalem; Steven L. Spiegel Recent American Policy in the Middle East; Alan Dowty U.S. Decision-Making in Middle East Crises; Michael Curtis American Interest and the Middle East; Aaron Wildavsky American's National Interest in Israel; Adam M. Garfinkle U.S. Policy in the Near Term; James R. Kurth U.S. Policy and the West Bank; Alvin Z. Rubinstein The Soviet Union's Imperial Policy in the Middle East; Michael Curtis Africa Israel and the Middle East; Victor T. Le Vine The Arabs and Africa; W. Howard Wriggins South Asia and the Gulf; Roy Licklide Arab Oil and Japanese Foreign Policy; Linda B. Miller Western Europe and the Middle East; Dan V. Segre Israel and the Third World.</p>