Synopses & Reviews
Offers an up-to-date regional survey that seeks, with considerable success, to integrate many different issues and countries into an overview.
Carl Brown
This collection offers an up-to-date regional survey that seeks, with considerable success, to integrate many different issues and countries into an overview... Topics treated include political and economic reform, Middle Eastern oil, and weapons of mass destruction, plus civil-military relations, the information revolution, and the prospects of impending leadership changes in the area. With its regional approach, the book reveals how the issues of WMD, terrorism, U.S support for the status quo versus championing reform, putting Iraq back together, and that hardy perennial-Israel and the Arabs-are all intertwined. U.S. policy, it says, must be 'flexible and robust'....
Foreign Affairs
Synopsis
Surveys several Middle East security issues and their implications for U.S. foreign policy.
Synopsis
This report identifies several important trends that are shaping regional security. It examines traditional security concerns, such as energy security and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as newer challenges posed by political reform, economic reform, civil-military relations, leadership change, and the information revolution. The report concludes by identifying the implications of these trends for U.S. foreign policy.