Bøger i Arab and Islamic Studies serien

Presents the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts in a range of countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa. This title demonstrates that it is the politics of such reforms that often determines the success or failure of economic policy changes.

Features Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars who assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of their respective past and present approaches to understanding political and religious developments in the Muslim world. This title also offers perspectives on Soviet Union's failed attempt to establish secular socialist rule in Afghanistan.

Traces the emergence of a modern political elite in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s and the grassroots political and social revolution it launched during the Intifada.

Why do international crises seem to occur so often in the Middle East? The author presents three detailed studies of policy failures that he believes were precipitated by miscalculations on the part of diplomats and of government and military leaders in one or more Middle Eastern countries, the United States, and the former USSR.

Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present-updated through the first years of the 21st century-provides a constructive framework for understanding recent developments and assessing the prospects for future peace. Drawing upon a wide array of documents and on research by Palestinians, Israelis, and others, Tessler assesses the conflict on both the Israelis' and the Palestinians' terms. New chapters in this expanded edition elucidate the Oslo peace process, including the reasons for its failure, and the political dynamics in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza at a critical time of transition.

As the Palestinian Liberation Organization engages in negotiations with Israel toward an interim period of limited Palestinian self-rule, this book provides an insider's view of how the growing hold of Islamic fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza challenges the peace process.

Up-to-date analysis of the interaction of politics, the economy, and Islam in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.