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Issue 12/August, 1998
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Issue 12/August, 1998
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
6. AUTHOR'S ALERTS (writers report on their books & articles)
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
IMPORTANT NEWS: MERIA Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3
The next issue of MERIA Journal will be sent in seven postings in the first half of September. It includes a new feature, "Indispensible Introductions." We are compiling a series of brief papers introducing key issues regarding the modern Middle East (approximately 4,000 words) but which also have a high level of analysis and an original perspective. The first two in this series are:
Nikki Keddie, IRAN: UNDERSTANDING THE ENIGMA: A HISTORIANS' VIEW
Robert J. Lieber, U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS
The issue also features presentations on current Gulf issues:
Joshua Teitelbaum, THE GULF STATES AND DUAL CONTAINMENT
Gerald Steinberg, U.S. RESPONSES TO PROLIFERATION OF WMD IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Two articles on women in the region:
Ustun Reinart, FREEDOM UNDER WRAPS: ISLAMIC GARB ON TURKISH CAMPUSES
Dahlia Scheindlin, PALESTINIAN WOMEN'S MODEL PARLIAMENT
And an analysis of some material factors in Middle East history:
Barry Rubin, THE GEOPOLITICS OF MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT AND CRISIS
Finally, we have a stimulating article on evaluating democratization and measuring civil society's strength in regional states:
Ali R. Abootalebi, CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRACY, AND THE MIDDLE EAST
As always, all articles will be sent to all subscribers individually. If you miss one in the sequence, please order from besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il or download from our homepage.
Important News: Total Circulation: We've modified our handling of circulation figures after finding that each MERIA issue is "reprinted" by other mailing lists regularly. We are thus providing a new "total circulation" figure. If you are "reprinting" all or part of MERIA we are delighted but please do let us know.
Shmuel Gordon, The Vulture and the Snake, Counter-Guerrilla Air Warfare: The War in Southern Lebanon, 70pp, BESA Center for Strategic Studies: browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
Avner Cohen, "Before the Beginning: The Early History of Israel's Nuclear Project," Israel Studies (Vol 3, No. 1), Spring 1998.2
IBRT Israel Yearbook & Almanac 1998. A 350-page book, including a 45-page list of 1997 events and articles on all aspects of Israeli life and politics. Israel: NIS 180; overseas $40 plus postage: iyba@virtual.co.il
Turks of Central Asia (a collection of papers by H.B. Paksoy) http://www.aimnet.com/~trh/paksoy/index.html
The Royal Institute of International Affairs maintains one of the world's most active research projects on Central Asia. The project has produced a long list of publications. Another recent publication is RIIA Discussion Paper 75, Galia Golan, "Russia and Iran?: A Strategic Partnership?" 54 pp. For information: Dusty Miller, Publications Marketing Manager, 101574.2670@compuserve.com
Second Quarter 1998 issue of the World Bank publication, West Bank and Gaza Update at Palestine Economic Forum, at http://www.palecon.org along with other articles.
An excellent link collection on Middle East minorities is http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/minorities.html. Included are a large selection of materials on Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and Kurds. This is an indispensible reference for anyone doing research on any of these groups.
Turkish Virtue party (Fazilet Partisi), the Welfare party's successor: http://www.fp.org.tr/
Lebanon Web Site: http://www.sparc.com/lebanon.html with introduction to institutions, statistics, and links.
Journal of Conflict Resolution has the texts of several articles form the Middle East. Of particular interest is Andrew Rathmell, "Syria's Intelligence Services." Unfortunately, only has articles up to 1996: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JCS
Iranian Cultural information Center: Bio of President Khatami, excerpts from speeches, introductory information and links. http://tehran.stanford.edu
On Saudi Arabia:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kbatarfi/home.html
The Pulse of Turkey, international news and inquiry service, Vedat Uras, uras@ada.net.tr or: http://www.ada.net.tr/pulse/
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan http://www.iconnect.com/jordan/
The Country and People of Qatar http//www.petroserv-limited.com/qatarp.html
Links to Egyptian Websites- http:pharos.bu.edu/Egypt
Libya: Our Home
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa Maps, pictures, history, government, and news
Libya Page http://quic.queensu.ca/~hassan/libya/libya.html
Mohamed.Hassan@quic.queensu.ca
Pan Am 103 Crash Page, about UN Sanctions on Libya
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/5260
The Institute for Science and International Security
http://www.isis-online.org articles including Assessment of India/Pakistan's Missile Stocks and Nuclear Weapons Policy, and Iraq's Efforts to Deceive the UN inspectors
Asabeel weekly (Jordan): http://www.assabeel.com/ includes numerous articles.
IsraelWire News Service http://www.israelwire.com A huge news service with daily updates on news from and about Israel.
ShufiMaFi Middle East, a weekly news report:
http://www.idrel.com.lb/idrel/shufme/archives/current.htm
LIST OF U.S. MIDDLE EAST CENTERS
The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies has put online a useful list of Middle East centers' addresses.
Here is the listing for your use, though it does not seem complete:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies The University of Arizona, mideast@u.arizona.edu
Western Consortium of University Centers for Middle Eastern Studies http://www.oaa.pdx.edu/International/MiddleEast The Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.ias.berkeley.edu:80/cmes/ UC Berkeley
UCLA: The Gustav E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies http://www-server.isop.ucla.edu/nec/
University of Texas Middle East Network Information Center
http://menic.utexas.edu/menic.html
University of Utah's Middle East Center
http://www.utah.edu:80/mec/
The Middle East Studies Center at the University of Washington
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~middeast/meast.html
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/ccas/ccas.htm
Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mideast/
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago http://ap-www.uchicago.edu/AcaPubs/GradAnno/html/5mid_east.html
University of Michigan's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and North Africa http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cmenas/index.html
The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania http://mec.sas.upenn.edu
Educational Resources, Book Reviews, K-12 Resources http://www.mesa.arizona.edu Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
Cultural forum for discussion on Islam and Arabia: kbatarfi@darkwing.uoregon.edu
MENA-H, the Middle East-North Africa History list: listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
International politics of the Middle East list, Tansa George Massoud, massoud@bucknell.edu or: listserv@bucknell.edu with the body of your mailgram containing: SUBSCRIBE POLS219 your name
IsraelWire News Service http://www.israelwire.com A huge news service with daily updates on news from and about Israel.
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
United States Institute of Peace, Unsolicited Grants 1998
Deadline: Oct 1, 1998 and March 1, 1999. Unsolicited grants are offered across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. Topic areas of interest to the Institute include, but are not restricted to: international conflict resolution; diplomacy; negotiation theory; functionalism and "track two" diplomacy; methods of third-party dispute settlement; international law; international organizations and collective security; deterrence and balance of power; arms control; psychological theories about international conflict; the role of nonviolence and nonviolent sanctions; moral and ethical thought about conflict and conflict resolution; and theories about relationships among political institutions, human rights, and conflict. The Institute sets no disciplinary restrictions. It welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature. http://www.usip.org/Unsolicited-Grants.html
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research Rabin-Peres Peace Award 1998. Deadline, October 31, 1998. Joint research proposals from senior American and Israeli scholars on topics concerning the Middle East Peace Process. Several grants, each between $10,000 and $20,000, will be awarded: http://www.tau.ac.il/peace
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
Tansa Massoud massoud@bucknell.edu: I teach a course on the international politics of the Middle East. I normally use Korany's and Dessouki's book, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, to cover the foreign policies of states in the region. I've just learned that it is out of print. Can anyone suggest a replacement text or a new text about inter-Arab politics?
6. AUTHOR'S ALERTS (writers report on their books & articles)
Antonio Donno (in collaboration with Daniele De Luca and Paola Olimpo), "Ombre di guerra fredda. Gli Stati Uniti nel Medio Oriente durante gli anni di Eisenhower, 1953-1961" [Cold War Shadows: The United States in the Middle East during the Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961], Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1998, pp. 754. The book includes: The U.S. and the Middle East Crisis (essays by Sanford R. Silverburg, Manuela Maglio, Robert J. Bookmiller, Georg Meyr, Bernard Reich and Mark D. Erickson, Paola Olimpo, Monica Lagazio, Miloud Barkaoui); The U.S. and the Bilateral Relations (essays by Antonio Donno, David W. Lesch, Peter L. Hahn, Elena Calandri, Annick Cizel); The U.S., the Suez Crisis and Its Consequences (essays by Howard J. Dooley, Jeffrey M. Nadaner, Michael B. Oren, Daniele De Luca, Daniele Biello, Peter Rainow). Selected bibliography by Sanford R. Silverburg.
Rotem M. Giladi, "The Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group," in The Practice and Case Law of Israel in Matters Related to International Law (1998), 32 Israel law Review 355. A 35-page analysis of the work of the Israeli-Lebanese monitoring group established by the April 26, 1996, Understanding.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
[For a complete list of past and future events, see our Global Calendar at: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria.html
August 26, Jerusalem: The Israeli-Palestinian Roundtable Forum of Economists, Businesspeople and Industrialists Pursuing Economic Development and Growth. Speakers: Mohamed Rachid Economic Advisor to Yasir Arafat; General Yaacov (Mandy) Or Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories. 3:00-5:00 pm, Notre Dame Center Jerusalem.
October 18, London: Will The State of Israel Have a Centenary? A debate featuring Mark Urban, BBC Newsnight, and Professor Lawrence Freedman, King's College, London University. 8.00-9.30 pm Wimbledon Synagogue, donation requested. To book a place please contact Vivienne Cato, Director of Education: 0181 987 8311.
November 9-10, Austin, Texas, Women of the Book: The Changing Face of Feminism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, A Multi-Disciplinary International Conference. http://menic.utexas.edu/menic.html
November 23-30, Cairo, Model Arab Court of Justice invites you to participate as a Judge in the case of: PNA vs. Kuwait: The violation of the Human Rights of Palestinians from Kuwait in the aftermath of the Second Gulf War. This is a student-run conference for student participants. Interested participants are expected to be university students with a background of at least one international law course. Write: Abdel Monem El-Shafei, President of the Arab Court of Justice Model Arab League Program, Abdelmonemelshaf@hotmail.com
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