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Issue 3/March 1999
Editor, Prof. Barry Rubin
Issue 3/March 1999
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:
Our new project, Specialized Lists
MERIA is starting a new type of project beginning in May 1999 open for free subscriptions to anyone wishing to join:
1. The Turkish Politics and Foreign Policy List. This project builds on our successful seminar, but now the list will be open to everyone. Subscribers will receive a variety of articles concerning contemporary developments in Turkey and Central Asia. They will also be able to send in announcements of conferences, books, or articles; information on jobs; research queries; discussion of current issues; etc. The list will be edited by Dr. Bulent Aras at Fatih University and will be governed by an editorial board. Materials will be accepted in Turkish or English. To subscribe or for more information, write: <besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il>. Details on sending items will be announced to list subscribers.
2. The Israel Studies list. Subscribers will be able to discuss issues in all areas and send in information regarding academic and policy studies on modern Israel, including history, political science, culture, anthropology, sociology, etc. We also plan to have an archive which will be useful for researchers. Polemics, partisan political statements, insulting or inciteful materials, and other items not of a scholarly quality will be omitted by the editorial board. This is also not a forum for debating the peace process or the Arab-Israeli conflict as such.
Among the items which will be included are: announcements of meetings or conferences, calls for papers, new publications, book and other reviews, announcements of relevant websites, jobs, scholarship or fellowship opportunities, discussion of issues, articles or papers, queries, exchanges on relevant issues at a proper level of discussion. The list will be moderated by an editorial board, now in formation. To subscribe or for more information, write: <besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il>. Details on sending items will be announced to list subscribers.
We are interested in starting other specialized lists, especially if there are people willing to serve as editors or to participate in managing them. write us with suggestions.
Improvements in MERIA News: MERIA News Author's Alerts is changing to Scholar's Alerts. In addition to carrying news about your writings, Middle East scholars can also report changes in their professional status, such as new appointments, dissertations, visiting appointments, etc. You are invited to send us information on these matters.
MERIABOOKS: A new book on U.S. foreign policy has been produced and articles added to other books. All is available for free through email. See the complete list at the end of this MERIA News.
Correction: Alan Dowty corrects a paragraph, damaged in transmission, for his article on Israeli policy in MERIA Journal Vol. 1 No. 3. The passage in question should read:
The capacity to extract gloomy premonitions from even the most promising turn of events remains undiminished.
In his inaugural address to the Knesset on July 13, 1992, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin identified this sense of insecurity as a major obstacle:
"It is our duty, to ourselves and our children, to see the new world as it is now-to discern its dangers, explore its prospects, and to do everything possible so the State of Israel will fit into this world whose face is changing. No longer are we necessarily "a people that dwells alone, 'and no longer is it true that "the whole world is against us.' We must overcome the sense of isolation that has held us in thrall for almost half a century."
Middle East Quarterly, Volume 6, Number 1, March 1999 includes:
Meyrav Wurmser, "Can Israel Survive Post-Zionism?"; Efraim Karsh, "Benny Morris and the Reign of Error"; Neill Lochery, "Netanyahu Deciphered!"; Eyal Zisser, "Hafiz al-Asad Discovers Islam"; P.R. Kumaraswamy, "Monica Lewinsky in Middle Eastern Eyes". Interviews: Martin Indyk, "I Must Be Optimistic about Arab-Israeli Relations"; Saud Nasser al-Sabah, "Kuwait's Welfare Mentality Must Go"
The special issue of the China Report, "China and the Middle East" (Vol. 34, Nos.3-4, July-December 1998) has just been published. A book version will be published in June. To order: lin@h2.hum.huji.ac.il
The Search for Common Ground is offering a discount on its books to MERIA readers: "Common Ground on Iraq-Kuwait Reconciliation" for MERIA readers is $7.00 (Regular Price: $12.95) plus $3.00 shipping and handling."Common Ground on Jordan-Israel-Palestine Trilateral Relations" for MERIA readers is $3.00 (Regular price: $5.00) plus $2.00 shipping and handling. See: http://www.sfcg.org.
A special double issue (5&6) of Turcoman International is now available. To order: <Turcoman@btinternet.com>.
The following monographs can be ordered from http://www.washingtoninstitute.org: Iran Under Khatami: A Political, Economic and Military Assessment by Patrick Clawson, Michael Eisenstadt, Eliyahu Kanovsky and David Menashri; Iraq Strategy Review: Options for U.S. Policy, edited by Patrick Clawson; Building Toward Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival by Amatzia Baram; Jerusalem's Holy Places and the Peace Process by Marshall J. Berger and Thomas Idinopulos; Sadat and His Legacy edited by Jon B. Alterman.
A. Sites on Turkish-Kurdish Issues:
Updated coverage of world Kurdish issues:
http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Kurdish_Issues/;
The Republic of Turkey, http://www.turkey.org/;
Turkish Forum http://www.turkishforum.com/icerik.html;
A Case Study of the PKK in Turkey--from the Turkish point of view, http://turkey.org/p_rela18.htm;
Unofficial Translation of the Turkey-Syria Treaty from the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism: http://www.ict.org.il/articles/syria-turkey.htm;
Directorate General of Press and Information, Turkey http://www.byegm.gov.tr/;
Kurdistan Workers Party Information: http://pkk.org/pkk/;
Kurdistan Observer: http://www.mnsi.net/~mergan95/EnglishN.htm;
List of Turkish Laws Violating Free Expression from Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/hrw/press98/feb/fe-turk.htm;
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/press98/feb/fe-turk.htm>;
Solidarity Group Turkey-Kurdistan: <http://www.xs4all.nl/~stk/ Ozgurluk> http://www.ozgurluk.org/;
One World Gallery, Kurdish photography collection: http://www.freespeech.org/oneworld/photo/;
Devrimci Sol, a revolutionary political review about Turkey and Kurdistan: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc/pub/revleft/index.html;
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/Browse_By_Region/Countries/Turkey/Complete_Listing/;
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Middle_East/Society_and_Culture/Cultur es_and_Groups/Kurdish/.
New Perspectives on Turkey, an English-language periodical on Turkish affairs: http://www.npt.boun.edu.tr
B. Gulf-related sites:
The Iranian e-zine has a complete collection of material on the 1979 revolution:http://www.iranian.com/revolution.html
The Payman Irani Network, in support of moderate and reformist politics in Iran: <http//www.irani.net>.
The Iraq Foundation is now online: <http://www.iraqfoundation.org/>.
The Iraq Research and Documentation Project is now at: <http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~mneimneh/>.
C. Israel
The Israeli Mission to the United Nations is now online at: <http://www.israel-un.org>.
The Bridge: Jewish and Arab Women for Peace in the Middle East:<http://tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/home.html>.
Evolution of the Palestine Problem, 1918 to 1988: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/qpal/DPR_pp_1.htm
D. Middle East Booksellers:
Ray Boas Books: http://www.rayboasbookseller.com/mideast.htm;
Findians Paradise: <http://www.netppl.fi/~amatthan/arabbk.html>;
William E. Mulligan Papers, Georgetown University: http://www.gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl160.htm.
E. Other
H. B. Paksoy's page on the history, culture, politics, literature of Central Asia and the Turkish Republic has moved to http://www.angelfire.com/on/paksoy
Publishers: Kegan Paul (International): http://www.demon.co.uk/keganpaul/middle_east/middle_east.html>;
Addison Wesley Longman: <http://www.awl-he.com/conthome1.html>. Their Middle East History page is at: <http://www.awl-he.com/dsc/HO.html>.
United States Committee for a Free Lebanon http://www.freelebanon.org.
3. FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO E-MAIL PUBLICATIONS
Palestinian culture and society discussion group: <p-culture-request@mailing-list.net>.
Addison Wesley Longman's free mailing lists on its publications: http://www.awl-he.com/mail1.html.
4. FUNDING/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Verification Institute at ISIS is offering a class on detecting and deterring nuclear proliferation,December 5-9: http://www.isis-online.org.
Call for papers for conference: "The United States and the Middle East: Diplomatic and Economic Relations in Historical Perspective," June 11-12, 1999 at Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Deadline: March 31. Contact Salim Yaqub: <salim.yaqub@yale.edu> or Barbara Papacoda: <barbara.papacoda@yale.edu>.
Post-Doctoral position available at the Joint Universite de Montreal/McGill University Research Group in International Security (REGIS). Deadline for applications: April 15, 1999. Contact Rex Brynen: <cyr6@musica.mcgill.ca>.
Israel Affairs invites articles for a special issue on Israel-Jordanian relations. Contact Ephraim Karsh or Dr. P. R. Kumaraswamy: <efraim.karsh@kcl.ac.uk>.
Call for papers for EURAMES Conference, September 27-29. Deadline: June 1: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/eurames/eurahome.html.
Graduate Student Seminar on "Oil and Gas in the Middle East and Latin America," April 24, St Antony's College, Oxford. Registration deadline: April 15, 1999.
Contact Kevin Rosser, Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) to participate in the Mediterranean Free Trade Zone Watch: <http://www.foeme.org>.
5. RESEARCH QUERIES-PLEASE HELP
Elisheva Rosman-Stollman <chendelle@hotmail.com> is looking for information about relations between the Gulf states and Israel (1991-1999). Joshua Teitelbaum responds: The web page of the Dayan Center http://www.dayan.org has a database for queries. Also see the relevant volumes of Middle East Contemporary Survey (MECS), where I have covered this subject in some detail. Finally, she should check the yearbook of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, an underutilized source on this issue, and check the website of the Foreign Ministry as well.
The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East, by Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder and Kemal Kirisci (Routledge, London, 1998). To order: <eder@lclark.edu>, <kirisci@umich.edu> or <carkogla@boun.edu.tr>.
"Signalling in the Turkish-Syrian Water Conflict" by Serdar Guner. Published in Conflict Management and Peace Science, volume 16, No.2, Fall 1998, pp.185-206.
Israel at the Polls, 1996 edited by Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler. Analyzes parties, election campaigns and the processes that determined the outcome of Israel's 1996 elections. Frank Cass Publishers http://www.frankcass.com.
"Knives, Tanks & Missles': Israel's Security Revolution by Eliot A. Cohen, Michael J. Eisenstadt and Andrew Bacevich (in Hebrew). To order, contact Elisheva Brown: browne@mail.biu.ac.il or romami@mail.biu.ac.il .
New Frontiers in Middle East Security edited by Lenore G. Martin. A comprehensive study of national security in the Middle East. St. Martin's press. To order, contact Roseann Romeo at: <roseannromeo@stmartins.com>. $49.95
St. Martin's Press has just published a number of books of interest on Middle East subjects: The Priest and the King by Desmond Harney. Diary of a British diplomat and businessman in Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. $19.95; Between Jihad and Salaam: Profiles in Islam by Joyce M. Davis. A collection of interviews that unveils the thoughts and personalities of various Muslim thinkers and leaders. $17.95. To order, contact Roseann Romeo at: <roseannromeo@stmartins.com>.
The Middle East and Europe: The Search for Stability and Integration edited by Gerd Nonneman. To order, call: (071) 259-9990 or fax: (071) 259-9505.
Constructive Ambiguity in Middle East Peacemaking by Aharon Kleinman. Tami Teinmetz Center for Peace Research, Research Report #10. To order: steinmet@ccsg.tau.ac.il or see: http://www.tau.ac.il/peace.
New Media New Politics?: From Satellite Television to the Internet in the Arab World by Jon B. Alterman. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Paper # 48: info@washingtoninstitute.org or <http://www.washingtoninstitute.org>.
"Re-Examining Israel's Security Doctrine", by Gerald Steinberg in RUSI International Security Review-1999, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Analysis, London, UK. "Obstacles to a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone", by Gerald Steinberg in Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones, edited by Ramesh Thakur, MacMillan, 1998.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
March 14. Jerusalem, Israel: Symposium entitled "Solar Villages for the Middle East" sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs, Friends of the Earth Middle East and the Palestinian Hydrology Group with the support of UNESCO's World Solar Commission: Friends of the Earth Middle East at FoE@ecopeace.net or see: http://www.ecopeace.net.
March 15. London, England: SOAS Water Issues Seminar on "Safe Yield and Sustainability of Groundwater Resources and Quality In Northeastern Jordan" with Jane Dottridge of KOMEX: Tony Allan at: ta1@soas.ac.uk.
April 7-8. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Annual Symposium: "The Arts in Arab Society: Culture in a Transnational Era "Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University.
June 2-6. Paris, France: Institut du Monde Arabe, Arabic Book Fair. Exhibitors' registration deadline: 28 February 1999: dsiahmed@imarabe.org.
June 3-5. Fez, Morocco: Conference on "Sacred Music and Aesthetics of North Africa" funded by the American Institute of Maghrebi Studies: Deborah Kapchan kapchan@mail.utexas.edu.
July 12-15. Fife, Scotland: U St. Andrew's, Conference on Foreign Policies of Middle East States. Registration deadline is 31 March 1999: Prof. Raymond Hinnebusch at: rh10@st-andrews.ac.uk.
8. UPDATED LIST: MERIA BOOKS YOU CAN ORDER FROM besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il4
A. MIDDLE EAST ECONOMICS
Robert Satloff and Patrick Clawson "U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt: Designing A New, Pro-Growth Package" (Courtesy, Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Robert Satloff and Patrick Clawson, "U.S. Military Aid to Egypt: Assessment and Recommendations" (Courtesy, Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Brent Sasley*, "Turkey's Energy Politics in the Post-Cold War Era"
B. ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "The Islamic Challenge in North Africa."
Dr. Joseph Kostiner, "State, Islam and Opposition in Saudi Arabia: The Post Desert-Storm Phase."
Dr. Eyal Zisser, "Hizballah in Lebanon: At the Crossroads"
Dr. A. Nizar Hamzeh, "Islamism in Lebanon: A Guide" (Courtesy of Middle East Quarterly)
Ely Karmon, "Radical Islamic Groups in Turkey"
Rami G. Khouri, "Algeria's terrifying but unsurprising agony" Emmanuel Sivan, "Why Radical Muslims Aren't Taking Over Governments"
(Reprinted with permission from Middle East Quarterly)
Prof. Barry Rubin, "Islamic Radicalism in the Middle East: A Survey and Balance Sheet"
Ali Abootalebi, "Islam and Democracy"
C. CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI POLITICS
Prof. Joel Peters, "Israel Under Netanyahu: The CurrentSituation in Israeli Politics."
Robert J. Lieber, "U.S.-Israel Relations"
Prof. Gregory Mahler, "Israel's New Electoral System: Effects on Policy and Politics."
Prof. Laura Zittrain Eisenberg: "Israel's Lebanon Policy"
Prof. Kenneth Stein, "Egyptian-Israeli Relations, 1973-1997"
Prof. Stuart Cohen, "Portrait of the New Israeli Soldier"
Prof. Robert J. Lieber, "U.S.-Israeli Relations Since 1948"
Efraim Inbar,"Israel's Security: A Strategic Survey"
Gerald M. Steinberg, "Israel and the United States: Can the Special Relationship Survive the New Strategic Environment?"
D. TURKISH POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY
Prof. Bilge Criss, "Turkish Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East."
Prof. Kemal Kirisci, "Post Cold-War Turkish Security and the Middle East."
Prof. Barry Rubin, "Notes on Turkey-Israel Relations."
Prof. Ersin Kalaycioglu, "The Logic of Contemporary Turkish Politics"
Dr. Konuralp Pamukcu, "Water-Related Cooperation Between Turkey and Israel."
Burcak Keskin, "Political Participation of Turkish Women"
Ely Karmon, "Radical Islamic Groups in Turkey"
Ustun Reinart, "Freedom Under Wraps: Islamic Garb on Turkish Campuses
Kemal Kirisci*, "Turkey and the United States: Ambivalent Allies"
Brent Sasley*, " Turkey's Energy Politics in the Post-Cold War Era"
Ustun Reinart, "Ciller"
E. PERSIAN GULF SECURITY ISSUES
Darius Bazargan, "Interview on Iraqi Weapons Monitoring with Terrence Taylor, UNSCOM inspector for biological weapons."
Turki al-Hamad, "Imperfect Alliances: Will the Gulf Monarchies Work Together?"
Dariush Bazargan, "Iran: Politics, The Military and Gulf Security"
Nikki Keddie, "Iran: Understanding the Enigma: A Historians' View"
Laurie Mylroie, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction and the 1997 Gulf Crisis"
Seth Carus, "Iranian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons: Implications and Responses"
Ofra Bengio, "Crossing the Rubicon?: Iraq and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process"
Joshua Teitelbaum, "The Gulf States and Dual Containment"
Joseph Kostiner*, "The United States and the Gulf States: Alliance in Need"
Seth Foley, The United Arab Emirates
Adeed Dawish, "Revolution in Bahrain"
F. CENTRAL ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Dr. Bulent Aras, "U.S.-Central Asian Relations: A View from Turkey."
Prof. Gareth M. Winrow, "Turkey and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus."
Dr. Bulent Aras and George K. Foster, "Turkey and the Azerbaijani Oil Controversies."
Brent Sasley*, "Turkey's Energy Politics in the Post-Cold War Era"
G. ESSAYS ON THE MIDDLE EAST'S NEW ERA
By Barry Rubin, Israel, The PA and the Arab States
The PLO Charter Revision: A Crossroads in Palestinian Politics Is the Arab-Israeli Conflict Over?
External Influences on Israel's Election
North Korea's Threat to the Middle East and the Middle East's Threat to Asia
Defining the New Middle East
Costs and Benefits for State Sponsors of Terrorism
"The Geopolitics of Middle East Conflict and Crisis"
U.S. Strategy in a Post-Cold War Middle East
H. LEBANON: CONFLICTS, POLICIES, FORCES
Dr. Eyal Zisser, "Hizballah in Lebanon: At the Crossroads"*
Dr. A. Nizar Hamzeh, "Islamism in Lebanon: A Guide"* [Courtesy of Middle East Quarterly]
Prof. Laura Zittrain Eisenberg: "Israel's Lebanon Policy"*
Habib C. Malik, "Is There Still a Lebanon?" [Courtesy of Middle East Quarterly]
I. PALESTINIAN POLITICS
Khalil Shikaki, "Palestinian Public Opinion, The Peace Process
Barry Rubin, "After Arafat: Succession and Stability in Palestinian Politics"
Barry Rubin, "Israel, The PA and the Arab States"
Barry Rubin, "The PLO Charter Revision: A Crossroads in Palestinian Politics"
Dahlia Scheindlin, "Palestinian Women's Model Parliament"
U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY - A
Patrick Clawson and Charles Freeman, "Dual Containment-Revive It or Replace It? (Courtesy of Washington Institute for Near East Policy).
Michael Eisenstadt, "U.S. Military Capabilities in the Post-Cold War Era: Implications for Middle East Allies"
Kemal Kirisci, "Turkey and the United States: Ambivalent Allies"
Joseph Kostiner, "The United States and the Gulf States: Alliance Need"
Robert J. Lieber, "U.S. Middle East Policy in The Clinton Second Term"
Robert J. Lieber, "U.S.-Israel Relations Since 1948"
Yoram Meital, "Domestic Challenges and Egypt's U.S. Policy"
U.S. Middle East Policy - B
Barry Rubin, "U.S. Strategy in a Post-Cold War Middle East"
Barry Rubin, Misperceptions and Perfect Understanding: The U.S. and PLO"*
Kenneth M. Pollack, "Current Iraqi Military Capabilities" (Courtesy of Washington Institute for Near East Studies)
Robert Satloff & Patrick Clawson, "U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt" and "U.S. Military Aid to Egypt" (Courtesy of Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Gerald Steinberg, "U.S. Responses to Proliferation of WMD in the Middle East"
Gerald M. Steinberg, "Israel and the United States: Can the Special Relationship Survive the New Strategic Environment?"
Robert O. Freedman, "U.S. Middle East Policy in the Second Clinton Administration"
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