Table of Contents

Map of the Middle East, Introduction Part I The Middle East Political Environment 1. Sources of Arab Nationalism: an Overview 2. Arab Nationalism Today 3. Pan-Africanism versus Pan-Arabism: A Dual Asymmetrical Model of Political Relations 4. The Maghrib and the Middle East Conflict 5. Policy Implications of Boundary Disputes in the Persian Gulf 6. Turkey’s Liberal Revolution Part II Religious and Ethnic Factors 7. The Return of Islam 8. Understanding Islam in Politics 9. Religion and its Role in National Integration in Israel 10. The Role of Minorities in the Modern Middle East Societies 11. A Perspective on the Shiites and the Lebanese Tragedy 12. The Kurdish Struggle for Independence Part III Economic Factors 13. Energy: The Short View and the Long 14. Oil and the Middle East: The Impact of Ideology on Performance and Policy 15. The Rise and Fall of Arab Oil Power Part IV The Arab World 16. The Arab World in the 1980s: Have the Predicates of Politics Changed? 17. Islamic Political Movements 18. Khumayni’s Islamic Republic 19. Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Egypt 20. The Forces Behind Syrian Politics 21. The Iran-Iraq War 22. M u’amar Qadhafi’s New Islamic Scientific Socialist Society 23. Political Instability in Saudi Arabia and its Implications Part V The Palestinians and the Territories 24. Land Ownership in Palestine, 1880-1948 25. Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel: 1922-1931 26. The Palestinian-Arab Nationalist Movement 27. The Nature of the PLO: Some International Implications 28. Academic Freedom and the West Bank Part VI Israel 29. The U.N. Partition Resolution of November 1947 30. Some Problems of Arab-Jewish Coexistence in Israel 31. The Evolution of Israeli Politics 32. Zionist Diplomacy and Israeli Foreign Policy 33. Assessing Israel as a “Strategic Asset” 34. Jerusalem’s Unity and West Bank Autonomy—Paired Principles 35. Some Guidelines for Positive Thinking in Jerusalem 36. Zionism and the Future of Israel Part VII The Role of the Superpowers 37. The Philosophy Behind Recent American Policy in the Middle East 38. U.S. Decision-Making in the Middle East Crises: 1958,1970, 1973 39. American Interest and the Middle East 40. What’s In It For Us? America’s National Interest in Israel 41. “Common Sense” about Middle East Diplomacy: Implications for U.S. Policy in the Near Term 42. U.S. Policy and the West Bank 43. The Soviet Union’s Imperial Policy in the Middle East 44. Soviet-American Rivalry in the Middle East Part VIII The External World 45. Africa, Israel and the Middle East 46. The Arabs and Africa: a Balance to 1982 47. South Asia and the Gulf: Linkages, Gains, Limitations 48. Arab Oil and Japanese Foreign Policy 49. Through a Glass Darkly: Western Europe and the Middle East 50. Israel and the Third World 51. Reviewing the United Nations

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Michael Curtis