Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part I: Middle East Strategic Assessment Chapter 1 / The Middle East in Transition: An Overview / Ephraim Kam United States Involvement...
Did Iraq possess weapons of mass destruction on the eve of the war? Can a democratic regime be imposed on Iraq? Might Iraq become a locus of regional instability? What will the international system look like under the world’s only superpower, the United States? How did the media shape public opinion in the course of the war? These and other questions are explored int his book, which dwells primarily with assessing the results of the war in Iraq.
In the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq certain basic implications for the region are already apparent, though their intensity will become clear only in the future. The fall of Saddam’s regime and Iraq’s strategic decline have signficantly weakened the group of radical countries in the Middle East and are likely to buttress the region’s moderate states. Iraq has been stripped of its military power, including conventional and WMD capabiltiies, which not only limits the threat Iraq poses to the region, but may...
Table of Contents Preface Part I: Middle East Strategic Assessment Chapter 1 / The Middle East: The Stability Factor / Ephraim Kam The Region's Stability The Middle East After September 11...
Table of Contents Preface Part I: Middle East Strategic Assessment / Shlomo Brom Chapter 1: Major Developments in the Middle East Chapter 2: The Israeli-Arab Sphere: Crisis and Consequences Israel and the Palestinians Syria, Lebanon and Israel Regional Effects of the Israeli-Palestinian Violence Chapter 3: The Gulf: Back to the Future Iraq Rattles its Cage, Again Iran: Reform in Retreat Chapter 4: The Role of Extra-Regional Actors U.S. Policy at a Crossroads September 11 and its Middle East Aftermath Russia:...
In January 1953, President Eisenhower entered the White House determined to downgrade the Arab-Israeli conflict to the more urgent need of consolidating a broad-based regional security alliance to effectively contain Soviet penetration in the Middle East. Three years later his personal envoy, Robert Anderson, was involved in a desperate mediating effort between Cairo and Jerusalem, seeking to defuse tensions on the Egyptian-Israeli front. Similarly, in January 1981, President Reagan started his tenure as President convinced that the...
