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Issue 13/November 1998
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Issue 13/November 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
8. Special Report on Middle East Water Issues
1. MERIA JOURNAL VOL.2 NO. 2: We are proud to announce the completion of our second year of publishing the MERIA Journal. This issue includes a special section of analytical articles on U.S. relations with Egypt, the Gulf Arab monarchies, Israel, and Turkey, along with an article on U.S. military capabilities in the region, from a November conference on America and its Allies, sponsored by the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and made possible by the generous support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
Incidentally, we are looking for articles to use in future issues. Please note that through MERIA Journal you reach a larger an more international group of colleagues than through any other Middle East publication. Send proposals, ideas, or manuscripts to: besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il and please make it clear that this is a proposed article for BESA.
2. SPECIAL REPORT ON WATER: By coincidence--or perhaps due to a growing research interest on the subject--we received four queries about Middle East water issues within one week. Sensing a trend, we've devoted part of this issue to a large bibliography on the subject (See below, Section 8).
1999 GLOBAL EVENTS CALENDAR: We are collecting material for our 1999 events calendar. Please send us information on your conference, seminar, lecture or other relevant activities, including email contact address for more information
P.R. Kumaraswamy's article "India and Israel: Evolving Strategic Partnership", which appeared in the May 1998 MERIA Journal, can be obtained in a longer, printed version from the BESA Center. Contact Elisheva Brown: browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il.
Autumn 1998 issue of Survival, the IISS quarterly, contains: "Coercing Sadam Hussein: Lessons from the Past" by Daniel Byman, Kenneth Pollack and Matthew Waxman; and "Engaging Iran: A U.S. Strategy" by Shahram Chubin and Jerrold D. Green. For information: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/iiss or http://www.oup.co.uk
The Katholic University of Eichstaett Geographic Institute announced the publIcatIon of "Economic Development and Investment Policies in Syria" as Volume 10 of theIr series "Eichstaetter Geographische Arbeiten": Sandra.Pfeifer@ku-eichstaett.de.
The Educational Journal, Issued by the Academic Publication Council, Kuwait University. Contact: tel. 4846843 (Ext. 4403-4409) Direct 4847961 - Fax 4837794
Middle East Quarterly, December 1998, is now available with articles including: Yale Zussman, "How Much Do American Jews Support the Peace Process?"; Ely Karmon, "Why Tehran Starts and Stops Terrorism"; a roundtable on U.S.-Israel relations; and an interview with Usama bin Ladin, "American Soldiers Are Paper Tigers": mideastq@aol.com
Israel Studies will send you its complete file of back issues listing all articles published: Natan Aridan, aridan@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.
CEMOTI, cahiers d'etudes sur la mediterranee orientale et le monde turco-iranien and Fondation nationale des sciences politiques new site: http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cemoti/presente.htm
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Online: http://www.afghan-web.com/. Good on politics and culture; excellent launchpad for any researcher into Afghan affairs and has a very useful news section. Taliban Online: http://www.taliban.com. Exhaustive organizational site with much source material on what Afghan's current leaders say. A goldmine for any researcher into the concept of Jihad.
Muslim Students' Association News Scholars Base: http://msanews.mynet.net/. Excellent links to the writings of academics, journalists and activists.
MIRA, Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia http://www.miraserve.com. Purportedly "moderate" Islamist opposition in Saudi Arabia. Good for an alternative view, samples of latest (Western) press items on the Kingdom, Bin Laden, with comments by MIRA.
Foreign Policy magazine website with hyperlinks to the calendar pages of a lot of major policy think tanks, etc. <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/containers/events.htm>.
New site for Middle East Insight: <www.mideastinsight.org>.
New page for Institute for Palestine Studies:
<http://www.ipsjps.org/>. For linking: Michele
Kjorlien, Assistant Editor, <jps@ipsjps.org>.
King Hussein of Jordan's site: <http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo> Includes facts about Jordan, documents and speeches (in English) from the King.
Iranian Studies at Princeton:
<http://www.iranian-studies.org/sisbackground.html>.
New site for French Center for Yemeni Studies:
<http://www.univ-aix.fr/cfey/>.
Final report of the Washington Kurdish Institute's Conflict Resolution Forum, including recommendations now at: <http://www.kurd.org/kurd>.
Birzeit University Computer Center opens BZU OutLoud Internet radio station: <http://www.birzeit.edu/outloud>.
Israel's jubilee national photo collection:
<http://194.90.92.50/topsrch/defaulte.htm>.
Syrian daily Tishrin now at: <http://www.teshreen.com>.
The National Security Archive opened a site devoted to Avner Cohen's new book "Israel and the Bomb." (see Author's Alerts), also containing some thirty documents relating Israel's nuclear history. See: <http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/israel>
IslamIc SudIes Pathways: <http://www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/pathways>. An Islamic Studies academic resource guiding the reader around the many Islam related sites currently on-line.
Transnational Broadcasting Studies, an electronic journal published by the Adham Center for Television Journalism at the American U in Cairo: <http://www.tbsjournal.com>.
The Autumn 1998 issue of the Palestinian Women's Network is now posted on the Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) Site at: <http://www.pal-watc.org>.
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
RFE/RL Iran Report, Vol. 1, No. 1, 9 November 1998. Subscribe: write <iranreport-request@list.rferl.org> with word subscribe as subject of the message.
New mailing list on ideology in different aspects of Arab life: <http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/arab-ideologyculture>.
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
RAND is opening its archives for scholarly research. For information: <http://www.rand.org> or: Gustave H. Shubert, <shubert@rand.org>.
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is offering solicited grants for Middle East research projects from $25,000 to $40,000. Deadline: January 4, 1999. See: <http://www.biu.ac.il/RA/www/calls/calls/99peace.html>.
United States Information Agency (USIA) announces the College and University Affiliation Program (CUAP) 1998-1999. Researchers may apply for research grants in several areas. Deadline: December 11, 1998. See: <http://www.usia.gov/education/rfps/cuaprfp.htm>
International Summer Academy for Doctorands and Post-Doctorands, September 13-26, 1999, Fondation Du Roi Abdul-Aziz Saoud in Casablanca, Morocco. Application deadline: January 31, 1999. Contact: Georges Khalil < khalil@wiko-berlin.de> The Working Group on Modernity and Islam is offering five fellowships on the subject of "Notions of Law and Order in Muslim Societies."
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) invites new members. For details: <a.l.haysey@durham.ac.uk>.
Call for papers by IRCICA for conference: "International congress on learning and education in the Ottoman World" April 12-15. 1999, Istanbul. Contact: <ircica@ihlas.net.tr>.
Call for papers for 17th Annual CIRA Conference: "Iran at the Threshold of the New Millennium" April 23-24, 1999, Boston, Massachusetts. Deadline for abstracts and proposals: November 30, 1998. See: <http://www.dac.neu.edu/cira>.
The Middle East Institute Is offerIng InternshIps to undergraduates and recent graduates. DeadlInes: Autumn-August 1;Spring-December 1;Summer-April 1 For more InformatIon, contact: Dr. Sana Abed-Kotob,<internships@mideasti.org>.
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
Information is requested on the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Send responses to LTI association2 <assalam2@gto.net.om>.
Per Morten Barstad at the University of Trondheim, Norway <permorte@stud.ntnu.no> Would like to know what has been written about the world wars as causes of Middle East conflict.
Brent Sasley responds to Ms. Kinory's query on Turkey's relations with Central Asia. (See also Gareth M. Winrow, "Turkey and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia, Central Asia and the Transcaucasus," Meria Journal, Vol. 1 No. 2 (May 1997), and Bulent Aras and George K. Foster, "Turkey and the Azerbaijani Oil Controversies" in the MERIA book: Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East.)
At first glance, there appears to be a wealth of common interests between the Central Asian republics and Turkey. Both areas are, after all, populated mostly by Turkic peoples. Except for Tajikistan, which is mainly Persian (and thus related more to Iranians) all the republics are Turkic, as is Azerbaijan. Most also follow the Sunni Muslim tradition as well, as does Turkey's Muslim population. When the republics first gained independence in 1991, most people thought it was an ideal opportunity for Turkey to extend its influence, bring part of the former Soviet Union under Western sway, and in general acquaint Turkey with its relatives in a way not possible during the Cold War.
However, that was the problem. Turkey was not at all, or hardly, acquainted with the Central Asian Turks, and were at very different stages of progress, living standards, etc. In addition, after it was realised that Turkey simply did not have the monetary resources that was Central's Asia's prime concern and need, Turkey's relations switched more to the cultural, linguistic, educational, etc, realms. Numerous agreements were concluded in this respect. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it was also soon realised that Russia had no intention of ignoring its "Near Abroad," and in fact began to pay much closer attention to the goings-on in the region - going so far, some accuse, as to foment unrest in the Caucasus so as to be able to maintain its troops in the area. Strategically, Central Asia was important for Russian security, and economically as the recent excitement over Caspian energy reserves have proved. Iran, also, began to get in the game. Iran is closer geographically and, as I mentioned, has much closer linguistic and cultural ties with at least part of Central Asia. It, too, wanted a share of the economic pie of the region.
That is basically how things stand now. Azerbaijan, though not part of Central Asia, has been an example of one country of the FSU that has displayed an overt wish to ally itself with Turkey (and the West). It has more leeway, however, given its oil resources and the relative protection the U.S. appears to afford it because of this. The Central Asian republics, however, have no such protection from the looming Russian bear, and have therefore had to be very careful in what policies they form and follow. They are also somewhat wary of Iran, which seems to be on the verge of a successful, albeit small for now, breakout from its relative isolation. Central Asia cannot discount the potential role Iran might play in the near future, and the countries are therefore careful not to antagonise it just yet...the rewards from open "alliance" with Turkey aren't great enough yet, and it seems doubtful that they will be for some time to come.
A good place to start researching these issues is the Turkistan Newsletter, which deals with issues from the Turkic world, and thus focuses to a large degree on Turkey and Central Asia. You can access its archives at: <http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/turkistan.htm>.
Barkey, Henri J. "Iran and Turkey: Confrontation Across an Ideological Divide." In Regional Power Rivalries in the New Eurasia: Russia, Turkey, and Iran, eds. Alvin Z. Rubinstein and Oles M. Smolansky, 147-168. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995.
Carley, Patricia M. "Turkey and Central Asia: Reality Comes Calling." In Regional Power Rivalries in the New Eurasia: Russia, Turkey, and Iran, eds. Alvin Z. Rubinstein and Oles M. Smolansky, 169-197. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995.
Fuller, Graham E. From Eastern Europe to Western China: The Growing Role of Turkey in the World and Its Implications for Western Interests. Santa Monica: RAND, 1993.
Harris, George S. "The Russian Federation and Turkey." In Regional Power Rivalries in the New Eurasia: Russia, Turkey, and Iran, eds. Alvin Z. Rubinstein and Oles M. Smolansky, 3-25. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995.
Mayall, Simon V. McNair Paper 56: Turkey: Thwarted Ambition. Washington, D.C.: Institute for National Strategic Studies, 1997.
Pamir, Peri. "Turkey in Its Regional Environment in the Postbipolar Era: Opportunities and Constraints." In Building Peace in the
Middle East: Challenges for States and Civil Society, ed. Elise Boulding, 133-145. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1994.
Kirisci, Kemal. "Post Cold-War Turkish Security and the Middle East." The Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal 1, no.2 (July 1997).
Mufti, Malik. "Daring and Caution in Turkish Foreign Policy." The Middle East Journal 52, no.1 (Winter 1998): 32-50.
Nathan, James A. "Turkey on Edge." International Relations 13, no.5 (August 1997): 15-25.
Robins, Philip. "Between Sentiment and Self-Interest: Turkey's Policy Toward Azerbaijan and the Central Asian States." The Middle East Journal 47, no.4 (Fall 1993), 593-610.
Sayari, Sabri. "Turkey and the Middle East in the 1990s." Journal of Palestine Studies 26, no.3 (Spring 1997), 44-55.
Sezer, Duygu Bazoglu. "Turkey's New Security Environment, Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation." Comparative Strategy 14, no.2 (April-June 1995), 14-172.
Ephraim Inbar and Benzion Zilberfarb (eds.), The Politics and Economics of Defense Industries. Fourth volume in the BESA Series in International Security, The Politics and Economics of Defense Industries provides a comprehensive and policy-relevant analysis of the complex web of contemporary economic trends, political developments and strategic considerations that are shaping the contours of the new post-Cold War world market for weaponry. Hardcover: $49.50, Softcover: $22.50. For ordering information, contact Elisheva Brown <browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il>.
Avner Cohen, Israel and the Bomb. A detailed account of Israel's nuclear history focusing on 1950-1970 when David Ben-Gurion's vision of making Israel a nuclear-weapon state was realized. He tells the story of the formative years of Israel's nuclear program, from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, to the alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology, to the failure of U.S. intelligence to identify the Dimona Project, negotiations between President Nixon and Prime Minister Meir that led to the current policy of secrecy. Hardcover, 500pp. $27.50 Columbia University Press / New York <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup>. For material related to the book: <http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/israel>
Uri Bialer, Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1963. This book focuses on Israel's attempts to ensure a regular oil supply in the first decade of its existence, while the Arab-Israeli conflict influenced the stand of government and oil companies. The author provides an analysis of the reciprocal relations between Israel and these players and clarifies the unique method which the state adopted to secure its oil supply. 289 pp. St. Antony's/Macmillan Series. Contact: Charlotte Shepheard, <c.shepheard@macmillan.co.uk>.
"Democracy and Dissent: The Case of an Israeli Peace Movement", a PhD dissertation by Dr. Magnus Norell. A case-study of the Israeli peace movement 'Peace Now', and the issue of dissention a democratic context. The core of the dIssertatIon focuses on the tension between the will of the collectivity or nation, as interpreted by a representative government, and the right of the individual conscience to take precedent over that collective will is, together with the discussion about the mechanisms that trigger and allow that dissent to function as exemplified by Peace Now. Contact: <claes-linde@statsvet.su.se>.
Brent Sasley, A Structural Reinterpretation of Power in the Middle East: Explanations and Implications of the Evolving Military Relationship between Turkey and Israel, an M.A. thesis at the University of Manitoba. An analysis of Israel and Turkey's regional motivations and extra-regional concerns: namely the effects of American and European Union neglect and/or disregard, and the security threats both countries perceive from Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Contact the author at: <umsasley@cc.umanitoba.ca>.
Shmuel Bar, "The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan," a Data and Analysis paper published by the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel-Aviv University. For details, contact: <dayancen@ccsg.tau.ac.il> or see <http://www.dayan.org>.
Lawrence G. Potter, "The Persian Gulf in Transition," a Foreign Policy Association Headline Series paper. For details, contact the Foreign Policy Association by phone (212) 481-8100 ext. 226 or 1-800-447-5836, or by fax (212) 481-9275.
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Peace, Indiana U Press. A free teacher's guide is available to anyone who orders an exam copy. This study identifies a pattern of negative behaviors that have historically stymied negotiators and apply their paradigm to six case studies, from the Camp David Accords to the Oslo Agreements and to the election of Binyamin Netanyahu. By illuminating characteristics that reinforce or refute the tradition of failed diplomacy, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace offers a fresh interpretation of how, when and why the peace process does or does not work and points to more promising diplomatic strategies that mey produce an enduring peace. Indiana University Press. iuporder@indiana.edu
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
November 9-10. Tel Aviv, Israel. BESA Center for Strategic Studies and Johns Hopkins SAIS, "America and Its Allies." info: Elisheva Brown, browne@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
November, 19-21. DAVO Kongress, "Transformationsprozesse in den Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients": DAVO@geo.Uni-Mainz-de or http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/davo (http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/davo) Proposals for panels: DAVO@lambada.geo.uni-mainz.de
November 29-30. Jerusalem, Israel. Davis Institute, "50 Years of Israeli Diplomacy," <msdavis@mscc.huji.ac.il>
December 1-3, 1998, Amman: "Water Resources Management in the Islamic World". Int'l Development Research Center: <MTherien@idrc.ca>
December 3-6. Chicago, MESA Conference. Proposal deadline February 17: mesa@ccit.arizona.edu or http://www.mesa.arizona.edu (no proposals by email or fax). (includes Society for Gulf Arab Studies meeting). <http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/MESA98/98special.htm>.
December 7-8, Haifa, Israel. Jewish-Arab Center, U Haifa, "The Palestine Mandate Fifty Years After: Arab, Jewish and British Perspectives." <fjar@uvm.haifa.ac.il>
December 13-14. Jerusalem/Ramat Aviv, Israel. BESA Center/Truman Institute, Middle Eastern Minorities conference. <mstruman@mscc.huji.ac.il>
December 15-19, Cairo, Egypt: "Manufacturing heritage/consuming tradition: Development, preservation and tourism in the age of Globalization" International Association of Transnational Environments: <iaste@ced.berkley.edu>
January 1999, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: The Centennial of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: <dma02@kfshhub.kfshrc.edu.sa>
February 1999, Chicago: Palestine Studies Conference: <laa3@midway.uchicago.edu>
April 12-15, 1999, Istanbul: "International congress on learning and education in the Ottoman World," Contact: <ircica@ihlas.net.tr>.
April 23-24, 1999, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, The 17th Annual CIRA Conference "Iran at the Threshold of the New Millennium". Deadline for abstracts and proposals: November 30, 19 1998. For more information, see: <http://www.dac.neu.edu/cira>
July 26-31, 1999, Dublin, Ireland: "Middle East Encounters with European enlightenment", panel at Int'l soc for Enlightenment Stud. conf. Contact: <ekhtiar@oswego.edu>
November 19-22, 1999, Washington, DC: MESA Conference. 12-15.7.99, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Conference on the ForeIgn PolIcIes of MIddle East States, RegIstratIon deadlIne: March 31, 1999. Contact: Prof. Raymond Hinnebusch, <rh10@st-andrews.ac.uk>.
SPECIAL REPORT: BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MIDDLE EAST WATER ISSUES
Readers from Jordan, Israel, and the United States simultaneously asked about contemporary water issues in the Middle East. So we put together a large bibliography on the subject for your use with help from kind scholars in Canada, England, Holland, Israel, Sweden, and the United States. We are most grateful for this fine example of intrnational cooperation which involved researchers from seven countries.
Allen, Roger and Mallat, Chibli, eds., Water in the Middle East. British Academy Press. London, 1995.
Allan, A. "Middle East Water: local and global issues." SOAS Water Issues Group, University of London, 1995. http://www.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/Papers/9508ta1_01.html
Allan, A. "Virtually no Water." The Middle East in 1997, (EMAP Business International Ltd) 1997. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Allan, J. Anthony. "The Nile: The Need for an Integrated Water Management Policy." G. Nonneman (ed.), The Middle East and Europe: the Search for Stability and Integration, 2nd ed., London, 1993. pp. 235-244.
Assaf, Karen, et. al. A Proposal for the Development of a Regional Water Master Plan. Israel-Palestine Centre for Research. Jerusalem, 1993.
"As thick as blood. Water in the Middle East", The Economist, 23-12-95/5-12-96, pp. 57-59
Beaumont, Peter. "Water - A Resource under Pressure." (on the Tigris-Euphrates system) G. Nonneman (ed.), The Middle East and Europe: the Search for Stability and Integration, 2nd ed., London, 1993. pp. 183-188.
Beschorner, Natasha. "Water and Instability in the Middle East." Adelphi Paper, 273, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Winter 1992/93.
Biswas, Asit, K. ed. International Waters of the Middle East. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.
Brans, E.H.P. et al. eds. The Scarcity of Water. 1997
Butts, K. H. "The Strategic Importance of Water." Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 1997).
Brooks, David. "Adjusting to the Flow: Two Comments on Middle East Water Crisis," Water International, Vol. 18 (1993), pp. 33-39.
Bulloch, John and Darwish, Adel. Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East. London, 1993.
Dillman, Jeffrey. "Water Rights in the Occupied Territories," Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 (1989).
Drezon-Tepler, Marcia. "Contested Water and the Prospects for Arab-Israeli Peace," Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 (1994).
Elmusa, Sarif S. "The Jordan-Israel Water Agreement: A Model or an Exception," Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 1994), pp. 63-73.
Fishelson, Gideon, Solutions for the Scarcity Water in the Middle East in Times of Peace. Tel Aviv, 1992
Gleik, Peter. "Water and Conflict," vol. 18, no. 1 (1993), pp. 79-112.
Gregory, Joseph R. "Liquid Asset," World Monitor 28 (November 1991).
Haddad, M. "Water Resources in the Middle East: Conflict and Solutions." WRAP, Jerusalem and Nablus University, 1995. http://endjinn.soas.ac.uk/Geography/Water Issues/9505 Jordan/Jordan01.html
al-Hassan, Omar. Water Resources in the Middle East. Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies. London, 1996.
Hillel, Dan, (1994), Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press.
Hindley, Angus. "Battle Lines Drawn for Euphrates," Middle East Economic Development (October 13, 1989).
Isaac, Jad, et. al., eds. Water and Peace in the Middle East. Amsterdam, 1994
Kally, Elisha and Fishelson, Gideon. Water and Peace: Water Resources and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. Westport, CT, 1993.
Kliot, Nurit, Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East. London, 1994.
Kolars, John, "The Middle East Growing Water Crisis," Research & Exploration, vol. 9 (1993), pp. 39-49.
Kolars, John, "Water Resources of the Middle East," in Israel Water: Study for the World Bank, Washington DC, 1994.
Kolars, John and H. Mitchell. The Euphrates River (Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
Libiszewski, S. "Water Disputes in the Jordan Basin Region and their Role in the Resolution of the Arab-Israeli Conflict." ENCOP Occasional Paper, no. 13. August 1995, http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/encop/13/en13.html
Longergan, Stephen, and Brooks, David, Watershed: The Role of Fresh Water in Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1994.
Lowi, Miriam. Water and Power: The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Lowi, Miriam. "Bridging the Divide: Transboundary Resource Disputes and the Case of West Bank Water," International Security, vol. 18, no. 1 (1993), pp. 113-138.
Lowi, Miriam, "Conflict and Cooperation in Resource Development," in Elis Boulding, ed., Peace Building in the Middle East: Challenges for States and for Civil Society, Boulder, 1994.
Morris, Mary E. "Water Scarcity and Security Concerns in the Middle East." Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research Occasional Paper (no. 14, 1998).
Musallam, Ramzi, (1990), Water: Sources of Conflict in the Middle East in the 1990s, London: Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies.
Nachmani, Amikam, "The Politics of Water in the Middle East", in Inbar, Efraim, ed, Regional Security Regimes. Albany, N.Y, 1995.
Nachmani, Amikam. "Water jitters in the Middle East," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 20, No.1 (Jan-March 1997):67-93. (Reprinted as Security and Policy Studies No. 32, The BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel, June 1997)
Naff, Thomas. "Water: An Emerging Issue in the Middle East?" The Annals of the American Academy of Political Scientists (November 1985).
Naff, Thomas. "Middle East: Water Issues in the 1990's: testimonies submitted to the U.S. House [of Congress] Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East," Washington, June 26, 1990.
Naff, Thomas and Ruth Matson, eds. Water in the Middle East: Conflict or Cooperation? (Boulder: Westview, 1984)
Nestor, Carl E. "Kurdish water, Turkish fire: the Role of the Southeast Anatolian Project in the Social Integration of the Kurds into the Turkish State." The International Journal of Kurdish Studies, vols. 8 and 9, (1995-96).
North, Robert, (1977), "Toward a Framework for the Analysis of Scarcity and Conflict," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4.
Pearce, Fred. The Dammed: Rivers, Dams and the Coming World Water Crisis. London 1992.
Peters, J. "Pathways to Peace - The Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks." The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996.
Rogers, Peter and Peter Lydon (eds.), Water in the Arab World: Perspectives and Prognoses. Harvard University Press, 1994.
Rouyer, Alwyn, "The Water Issue in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process," Survival, vol. 39, no. 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 57-81.
Rouyer, Alwyn, "Zionism and Water: Influences on Israel's Future Water Policy During the Pre-state Period," Arab Studies Quarterly, Winter 1997.
Schultz, M. "Turkey, Syria and Iraq: A Hydropolitical Security Complex." Regional Case Studies of Water Conflicts (Padrigu Papers), Peace and Development Research Institute, Gothenburg University, 1992.
Selby, Jan. "Between War ad Peace: Water in the Middle East." Presented to CMEIS, Durham University, February 1998. Available from the author: j.selby@lancaster.ac.uk
Serageldin, I. "Surviving Scarcity, Sustainable Management of Water Resources." Harvard International Review, vol. 18, no. 3 (Summer, 1996);
Sexton, Richard, "The Middle East Water Crisis: Is it the Making of a New Middle East Regional Order?" Capitalism, Environment, Socialism, 3 (4), December 1992, pp. 65.
Shapland, Greg. Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East. London, 1997
Shuval, Hillel, "Approaches to Resolving The Water Conflicts Between Israel and her Neighbours," Water International, Vol. 17 (1992), pp. 133-43.
Soffer, Arnon. The Conflict of Water in the Middle East [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1992.
al-Solh, R. "Water crisis in the Middle East." London, May 19, 1997. http://www.arab.net/arabview/articles/solh1.html
Starr, Joyce and Daniel C Stoll. The Politics of Scarcity: Water in the Middle East. Boulder, 1987.
Starr, Joyce "Water Wars," Foreign Policy, no. 82, (Spring 1991), pp. 17-36.
Starr, Joyce and Stoll, Daniel, United States Foreign Policy on Water Resources in the MiddEast. Washington DC: CSIS. (1987).
Abu-Taleb, Maher. "Regional Cooperation in Water Resource Management," in Elis Boulding, ed., Peace-Building in the Middle East: Challenges for States and for Civil Society, Boulder, 1994.
Tamimi, Abdel Rahman, "Water: A Factor for Conflict or Peace in the Middle East," Israeli-Palestinian Peace Research Project Working Papers, Jerusalem: Harry Truman Research Institute, the Hebrew University 1991.
Warner, Jeroen, Tightropes Across the River. Managing Conflict in Middle East River Basins. Occasional Paper, No. 17, Middle East Research Associates, Amsterdam, 1993.
Warner, Jeroen. Kicking the Water Habit. Israel, Palestine and the New Water Order. Amsterdam Middle East Paper No 7, University of Amsterdam.
Westing, Arthur. Global Resources and International Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Wilder, Wendy. The Hydropolitics of Scarcity in the Jordan River Basin. London: Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies, 1994.
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