Title: Trends in Middle East Politics and their Implications for Israel
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle East Response, Oxford, 2002. 2. See Uri Bialer, Between East and West: Israel's Foreign Policy Orientation, 1948–1956, Cambridge, 1990; Zaki Shalom, David Ben-Gurion, The State of Israel and the Arab World, 1949–1956, The Ben-Gurion Research Centre, Sede Boker Campus, 1995 (Hebrew); Michael Bar-Zohar, Ben-Gurion, A Political Biography, Part III, Tel Aviv, 1978, pp. 1321–1332 (Hebrew). 3. Benny Morris, Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford, 1997; Righteous Victims: A History of The Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–1998, New York, 1999. Motti Golani, Israel In Search of a War: The Sinai Campaign, 1955–1956, Brighton and Portland, OR, 1998; Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and The Arab World, New York, 2000. 4. George Lenczowski, The Middle East in World Affairs, Ithaca, NY, 1962; Don Peretz, The Middle East Today, New York, 1963; James Jankowski, Nasser's Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic, Boulder, CO, 2002. 5. See for example, UN Reports on Human Development in the Arab World at http://hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.cfm. 6. See Michael C. Hudson (ed.), Middle East Dilemma, New York, 1999; Michael N. Barnett, Dialogues in Arab Politics, New York, 1998; Halim Barakat, The Arab World, Society, Culture and State, Berkeley, 1993. 7. See Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, 17 April 2003; Tishrin, 15 May 2004. 8. For the Arab reaction to the fall of Baghdad on April 2003, see al-Jazeera TV, 11 April 2003, www.aljazeera.net. 9. See http://hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.cfm. 10. See al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Arabiyya sl-Surriyya, Ri'asat Majlis al-Wuzara, al-Maktab al-Markazi lil-Ihsa, al-Majmu‘a al-Ihsa'iyya liSanat 1993, liSanat 2000, Damascus, 1993, 2001; see also EIU Country Profile—Syria, 1993–1994; EIU Country Profile—Syria, 2000–2001; Steven Plaut, ‘The Collapse of the Syrian Economy’, Middle East Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 3 (September 1999) pp. 3–14; see also World Bank, World Development Indicators, 1999; see also Tishrin, 8, 9 March 2000, and Tishrin, 16 November 2001. 11. Nazih N. Ayubi, Over-Stating the Arab State, Politics and Society in the Middle East, London, 2001. 12. Fouad Ajami, The Arab Predicament, Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967, Cambridge, 1988. 13. Bassam Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism, Political Islam and the New World Disorder, Berkeley, 1998. 14. Asher Susser, ‘The Decline of the Arabs’, Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 2004), www.meforum.org/article/564; ‘Hiwar Maftuh’ (Open Dialogue), al-Jazeera TV, 11 April 2003; al-Sharq al-Awsat, 11, 12 April 2003. 15. See ‘Hasanayn Haykal Speaks’, al-Jazeera TV, 6 October 2005. For more on Hasanayn Haykal see Shimon Shamir (ed.), The Decline of Nasserism, 1965–1970: The Waning of a Messianic Movement, Tel Aviv, 1978, pp. 1–60 (Hebrew). 16. Avraham Sela, The Decline of the Arab–Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order, New York, 1998, pp. 97–220. 17. For more on Israeli–Turkish relations see Efraim Inbar, The Israeli–Turkish Entente, King's College Mediterranean Studies Programme, London, 2001; Ofra Bengio, The Turkish–Israeli Relationship: Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders, New York, 2004. 18. See al-Watan, Kuwait, 17 April 2005. 19. Gad Gilbar, Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography and Economy, London, 1997. 20. Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, London, 1991, pp. 271–302. See also, al-Sharq al-Awsat, London, 17 April 2005; al-Hayat, London, 5 May 2005. 21. For more information on previous US involvement in the Middle East see David W. Lesch (ed.), The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment, Boulder, CO, 1996; William B. Quandt, Peace Process, American Diplomacy and the Arab–Israeli Conflict since 1967, Berkeley, 2001; see also Jimmy Carter, The Blood of Abraham, London, 1985. For the Bush administration's Middle East policy see Steven David, ‘American Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: A Necessary Change?’, in this volume. 22. David Menashri, Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution, New York, 1990. 23. William B. Quandt, Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism, Washington, DC, 1998. 24. See ‘President Bush Discusses Freedom in Iraq and Middle East’ at www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031106-2.html; see also Philip H. Gordon, ‘Bush's Middle East Vision’, Survival (Spring, 2003), pp. 155–165. 25. Fouad Ajami, ‘Bush Country, The Middle East Embraces Democracy—and the American President’, The Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2005; ‘A New Iraq: Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds All Have a Stake in Liberty’, The Wall Street Journal, 26 January 2005; ‘Iraq and the Arabs’ Future’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 1 (January/February 2003), pp. 2–18; ‘The Autumn of the Autocrats’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84 No. 3 (May/June 2005), pp. 2–17; Bernard Lewis, ‘Islam and Liberal Democracy: A Historical Overview’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1996), pp. 52–63; ‘Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 3 (May/June 2005), pp. 18–20. 26. Susser, ‘The Decline of the Arabs’; Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism. See for example, Hasan Nasralla, Secretary General of Hizballa, al-Manar TV, 8 March 2005; al-Intiqad, 9 March 2005. 27. Efraim Karsh (ed.), Between War and Peace: Dilemmas of Israeli Security, London, 1996; Ephraim Kam and Yiftah Shaphir (eds.), The Middle East Strategic Balance, 2002–2003, Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv, 2004. 28. Shlomo Ben-Ami, A Front Without a Rearguard, Tel Aviv, 2004, pp. 129–291 (Hebrew). 29. Ha'aretz, 2 April 2003 and 3 May 2003; al-Hayat, 17 November 2004. 30. Ari Shavit, Partition, Disengagement and Beyond, Jerusalem, 2005 (Hebrew); Dan Schueftan, Disengagement, Israel and the Palestinian Entity, Tel Aviv, 1999 (Hebrew). Additional informationNotes on contributorsEYAL ZISSERProfessor Eyal Zisser is Chair of The Department for Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
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