03421nam 2200673Ia 450 991045112210332120200520144314.01-281-36982-997866113698281-4039-8320-810.1057/9781403983206(CKB)1000000000342582(EBL)307716(OCoLC)314889499(SSID)ssj0000132652(PQKBManifestationID)11135636(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132652(PQKBWorkID)10039630(PQKB)11315947(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8320-6(MiAaPQ)EBC307716(Au-PeEL)EBL307716(CaPaEBR)ebr10150384(CaONFJC)MIL136982(EXLCZ)99100000000034258220051206d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical issues facing the Middle East[electronic resource] security, politics, and economics /edited by James A. Russell1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20061 online resource (233 p.)Initiatives in strategic studies--issues and policiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-53377-7 1-4039-7246-X Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""POLITICAL ECONOMY""; ""2 Long-Term Sources of Instability in the Middle East""; ""3 Reforming the Rentier State: The Imperatives for Change in the Gulf""; ""EMERGING POLITICAL DYNAMICS""; ""4 Oslo�s Success, a Militarized Resistance: Changing Opposition Tactics in the Palestinian Territories""; ""5 Islamization and American Policy""; ""6 Democratic Nation Building in the Arc of Crisis: The Case of the Presidential Election in Afghanistan""; ""REGIONAL SECURITY AND STABILITY""""7 The Arab�Israeli Conflict and Regional Stability""""8 Iraq and the New Regional Security Dynamic""; ""STRATEGY AND POLICY""; ""9 Strategy, Policy, and War in Iraq: The United States and the Gulf in the Twenty-First Century""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, prominent experts analyze the challenges these changes pose to US strategy and policy. They examine the causes of profound economic, political and religious transitions and their implications for hopes of reform.Initiatives in strategic studies--issues and policies.National securityMiddle EastMiddle EastDefensesMiddle EastPolitics and government21st centuryMiddle EastEconomic conditions21st centuryElectronic books.National security355/.033056Russell James A(James Avery),1958-915961MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451122103321Critical issues facing the Middle East2053415UNINA