Contributor
Yambert, Karl.
Edition Statement:3rd ed.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2013.
Descriptionxxiv, 424 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Note:I. HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES. The peoples and cultures of the Middle East / Colbert C. Held and John Thomas Cummings ; The roots of Arab bitterness / Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson ; Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad ; Global energy and the Middle East / Steve Yetiv ; New US policies for a new Middle East? / William B. Quandt ; Cairo speech / Barack Obama -- II. ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS. Israel and the Arabs, and beyond / Robert O. Freedman ; The United States and Israel / Bernard Reich and Shannon Powers ; The Palestinians / Glenn E. Robinson ; Sharon's fence /Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar ; Whither the Palestinians? / Samih K. Farsoun and Naseer H. Aruri ; Ethnicity and nation-building in the state of Israel / Calvin Goldscheider ; Syria's threat to Israel /Hirsch Goodman ; The Iranian nuclear threat against Israel / Steven R. David -- III. IRAQ AND IRAN. Pashtunistan : Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq / Stephen Tanner ; The land and people of modern Iraq / Phebe Marr ; Impacts of the Iraq War / James DeFronzo ; America's troubled moment in the Middle East / William L. Cleveland and Martin Bunton ; Maliki consolidates power in post-Saddam Iraq / Phebe Marr ; The Iranian revolution and its consequences / David W. Lesch ; Islamic republic of Iran: political dynamics and foreign policy / Mark Gasiorowski ; Iran's regional foreign policy / Manochehr Dorraj ; Iran, Israel, and the United States / Scott Ritter ; The Iranian predicament /Michael Axworthy -- IV. THE ISLAMISTS. Islamists and democracy: the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood / Marwan Bishara ; Talking to terrorists: Hamas and Hezbollah / Mark Perry -- V. THE ARAB SPRING. The Arab spring, 2011 / Eugene Rogan ; Egypt: Mubarak and after / Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. ; Bashar al-Assad, Syria, and the Arab spring / David W. Lesch ; The Arab world at the intersection of the national and the transnational / James L. Gelvin -- VI. LOOKING FORWARD. The contemporary Middle East: some questions, some answers / Shibley Telhami -- Select bibliography -- Glossary -- Notable persons -- Chronology since World War I.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-393) and index.
