The Middle East enters the twenty-first century / edited by Robert O. Freedman.

Contributor Freedman, Robert Owen.

Imprint:Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2002.

Descriptionx, 397 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Proceedings of a conference held in November, 2000 and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Israel and the Contemporary Middle East, Baltimore Hebrew University.

Note:I. THE PERSIAN GULF AND TURKEY: The legacy of Iraq's past and the promise of its future / Judith S. Yaphe -- Iran: slouching toward the 21st century / Shaul Bakhash -- The Arabian Peninsula monarchies from Camp David I to Camp David II / F. Gregory Gause III -- From swamp to backyard: the Middle East in Turkish foreign policy / Malik Mufti -- II. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CORE AREA: Israel enters the 21st century: hegemonic crisis in the Holy Land / Ilan Peleg -- The Palestinian national movement: from catastrophe to disaster / Barry Rubin -- Jordan: walking a tightrope / Yehuda Lukacs -- Flanks, balances, and withdrawals: Syrian policy in the Middle East since the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli treaty / David W. Lesch -- Lebanon since 1979: Syria, Hizballah, and the war against peace in the Middle East / Marius Deeb -- III. EGYPT AND NORTH AFRICA: Egypt: moribund between past and future / Louis Cantori -- Militant Islam and the state in north Africa / Mary-Jane Deeb -- IV. THE OUTSIDE POWERS: U.S. policy toward the Middle East / Don Peretz -- Russian policy in the Middle East under Yeltsin and Putin / Robert O. Freedman -- The impact of September 11: the Bush administration, the European Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Robert O. Freedman.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-380) and index.

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