Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Saudi Arabia and the United States, Birth of a Security Partnership, by Parker T. Hart.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , by David E. Long.
Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent , by Mamoun Fandy.
Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin , by Michael Karpin and Ina Friedman.
Islam in the United States of America , by Sulayman S. Nyang.
Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus , ed. by Ole Hoiris and Sefa Martin Yurukel.
Minorities and the State in the Arab World , edited by Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor
Arab National Communism in the Jewish State , by Ilana Kaufman     

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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate , by Tom Segev.
Encyclopedia of the Palestinians , edited by Philip Mattar.
Israel's First Fifty Years , edited by Robert O. Freedman.
The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon 1967–1976 , by Farid El-Khazen.
China and the Middle East: The Quest for Influence , edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy.
The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine , by Ray Takeyh.
The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran , by Robin Wright.
Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics , by L. Carl Brown.
Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia– 1937 to 1940 , by Thomas C. Barger.
Holier Than Thou: Saudi Arabia's Islamic Opposition , by Joshua Teitelbaum.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Fima , by Amos Oz, trans. Nicholas de Lange.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Operation Shylock, A Confession , by Philip Roth.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza , by Ian S. Lustick.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Palestinians: The Making of a People , by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Arabs and Israel for Beginners , by Ron David. Illustrated by Susan David.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Egypt during the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society , by Kirk J. Beattie.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: The Middle East and Problems of Democracy , by Heather Deegan.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Islam and Arabs in Early American Thought: The Roots of Orientalism in America , by Fuad Shaban.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States , by F. Gregory Gause III.
REVIEW ESSAY: JERUSALEM DAZE: The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-Up, 1980-92 , by Branka Magas.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Arabs at the Crossroads: Political Identity and Nationalism , by Hilal Khashan.
Legislative Politics in the Arab World: the Resurgence of Democratic Institutions , by Abdo Baaklini, Guilain Denoeux and Robert Springborg.
Israel and the Bomb , by Avner Cohen.
Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture-and Destruction of Planet Earth , by Grace Halsell.
Scattered Like Seeds , by Shaw J. Dallal.
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism , by John D. Cooley.
Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey , by Ahmad S. Moussalli.
The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman , by Rosemarie Said Zahlan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait , by Mary Ann Tétreault All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies , by Michael Herb. Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons , by Tim Trevan. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem‐Once and for All , by Scott Ritter. The Arab Shia: The Forgotten Muslims , by Graham E. A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza , by Rex Brynen. Water Politics in the Middle East: A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? , by Mostafa Dolatrar and Tim S. Gray. Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace , eds. Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolfe. Water Conflict: Economics, Politics, Law and the Palestinian‐Israeli Water Resources , by Sharif S. Elmusa. New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel , ed. Geoffrey Wigoder. The Oxford History of Islam , ed. John Esposito Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat ? eds. Roald Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
R eview E ssay : T he A rmenian Q uestion *
Ermeni Meselesi Hallolunmuştur: Osmanlı Belgelerine Göre Savaş Yıllarında Ermenilere Yönelik Politikalar [The Armenian Question Resolved: Policies Toward the Armenians in the War Years according to Ottoman Documents]¹ By Taner Akçam.
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations , by Avi Shlaim.
Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State , by Marc Valeri.
Images of the Prophet: Narratives of the Prophet of Islam across the Centuries , by Tarif Khalidi.
The Arabs, A History , by Eugene Rogan.
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West , by Christopher Caldwell.
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen , by Lisa Wedeen.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Roy Allison and Lena Jonson, (eds.) Central Asian Security: The New International Context
Lawrence Davidson, America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood
A. J. Sherman, Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948
Barry Rubin, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics — From Revolution to State-Building
Geneive Abdo, No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
Charles M. Sennott, The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land's Christians and the Turn of a New Millennium     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume I , edited by Augustus Richard Norton.
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy , by Avi Shlaim.
Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy , by Camille Mansour.
Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad , by Ziad Abu-Amr.
The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World , by Gilles Kepel.
Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East , by John Bulloch and Adel Darwish.
Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication Culture and the Iranian Revolution , by Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi.
Don't Kill the Messenger: The Tragic Story of Wells Hangen and Other Journalistic Combat Victims , by Charles Arnot.
A Persian Requiem , by Simin Daneshvar, translated from the Farsi by Roxane Zand.     

Understanding Israel's Long Conflict in Lebanon: The Search for an Alternative Approach to Security During the Peace Process

The Arab‐Israeli peace process pointed to a resolution of the Middle East's most persistent conflict, as the Rabin and Peres governments developed a sensitivity to the Arab‐Israeli ‘security dilemma’, but by 1996 the process was deadlocked. Events stalled progress, but so did ingrained attitudes that continued to shape policy that was inconsistent with the peace process. The following article explains some of the Realist norms and values at the root of security thinking in Israel, and charts their inertia in Israeli policy during the peace process, focusing on its approach to Lebanon. The article gives an insight into why Rabin and his successors struggled to find an alternative policy towards Lebanon, and how this prolonged the Arab‐Israeli conflict. The efforts of the Netanyahu and Barak governments to find a solution to the policy problem of Lebanon are outlined.     

Review Essay

Book reviewed in this article:
Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic, by Ervand Abrahamian.
From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi, by Mohammed Al-Fahim.
Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy, by Joseph A. Kechichain.
The Life and Times of Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa: Ruler of Bahrain 1942-61, by Andrew Wheatcroft.
Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945, by Donald Neff.
Broken Covenant, by Moshe Arens.
Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians, edited by Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour and Alice Lynd.
Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land, by Meron Benvenisti.
The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians, by Naseer Aruri.
WATER AND POWER. The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin, by Miriam R. Lowi.
Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, by Daniel Hillel.
Arms Control and Security in the Middle East: The Search for Common Ground, edited by Richard Eisendorf.
The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics 1955-1967, by Fawaz A. Gerges.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969–1993 , by Edward W. Said.
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years , by Israel Shahak. Foreward by Gore Vidal.
All That Remains: the Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Walid Khalidi, ed.
The Palestine Liberation Organization: From Armed Struggle to the Declaration of Independence , by Jamal R. Nassar.
Building Peace in the Middle East, Challenges for States and Civil Society, edited by Elise Boulding.
Crisis in the Arabian Gulf: An Independent Iraqi View , by Omar Ali.
America and the Iraqi Crisis, 1990–1992: Origins and Aflermath , by Lester H. Brune.
Iraqi Statesman: A Portrait of Mohammed Fadhel Jamali , by Harry J. Almond.
Broadcasting in the Arab World: A Survey of the Electronic Media in the Middle East , by Douglas Boyd.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Saudi Arabia: Guarding the Desert Kingdom, by Anthony H. Cordesman.
Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment, by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ahmed S. Hashim.
Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond, by Anthony H. Cordesman and Ahmed S. Hashim.
The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Ba'th Party, by Nikolaos van Dam.
Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel, by Yaron Ezrahi.
Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint, edited by Suha Sabbagh.
Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women of the Palestinian National Movement, by Amal Kawar
George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy, by James A. Bill.
Muslim Politics, by Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace , by Dennis Ross.
The Truth about Camp David: The Untold Story about the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process , by Clayton E. Swisher.
The 9/11 Report. Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Authorized Edition.
Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979-2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics , by Robert Olson.
A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era , by Matthew Connelly.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Lawrence G. Potter and Gary G. Sick (eds.), Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus
Bernard Hoekman and Patrick Messerlin, Harnessing Trade for Development and Growth in the Middle East
Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan, Unfulfilled Promise
Bulent Gokay (ed.), The Politics of Caspian Oil
Michael P. Croissant and Bulent Aras (eds.) Oil and Geopolitics in the Caspian Sea Region
Martin Kramer, Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America
Thomas Baylis, How Israel was Won: A Concise History of the Arab–Israel Conflict     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab‐Israeli Peace , by Aaron David Miller. Negotiating Arab‐Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East , by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky. The Arab‐Israeli Conflict — A History , by David W. Lesch. A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance , by Mary Elizabeth King. Hezbollah: A Short History, by Augustus Richard Norton. Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty‐First Century , by Marc Sageman. Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy , by Tamara Coffman Wittes. An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? Reidar Vissar and Gareth Stansfield, eds. A Political Economy of the Middle East, Third Edition, by Alan Richards and John Waterbury. Arguing the Just War in Islam , by John Kelsay. Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party , Edited by Umit Cizre. REVIEW ESSAY: Kurdish Scholarship Comes of Age     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel , by Stephen J. Sniegoski.
The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last , by Bernard Avishai.
The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower , by Robert Baer.
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran , by Hooman Majd.
Culture and Conflict in the Middle East , by Philip Carl Salzman.
Syria: Chess Match at the Borders , A Film by Amal Hamelin des Essarts.
Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader, A Story of True Jihad , by John W. Kiser.     

Ideo‐theology and the Jewish state: from conflict to conciliation?

The assassination of Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin provided the most vivid demonstration to date of religious‐nationalist opposition inside Israel to the principle of exchanging land for peace. This article sets out to explore this world view and its intellectual origins, exploring in the process how the use of sacred Judaic texts have become both the monopoly of religious‐nationalism and the template for politically inspired violence against those in Israel suspected of condoning territorial compromise. This article concludes that if the ideo‐the‐ology of religious‐nationalists is to be assuaged, a religious discourse supporting territorial retrenchment has to become part of the political fabric of the centre‐left in Israel.     

Review Essay: Getting Away With Murder

Book reviewed in this article:
A Death in Jerusalem by Kati Marton.
Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Christians, by Donald E. Wagner. Foreword by Elias Chacour.
Israel and Syria: Peace and Security on the Golan, by Aryeh Shalev.
My Enemy'S Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948, by Laura Zittrain Eisenberg.
Jordan'S Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making, by Laurie A. Brand.
Desert Warrior, by HRH General Khaled bin Sultan.
The Iraqi Economy under Saddam Hussein: Development or Decline, by Muhammad Al-Zainy.
Global Islamic Politics, by Mir Zohair Husain.
Islam in Revolution: Fundamentalism in the Arab World, by R. Hrair Dekmejian.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within , Edited by Moshe Ma'oz and Ilan Pappé. Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century, edited by David E. Long & Christian Koch. The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion, edited by Gary G. Sick and Lawrence G. Potter. Coalition, Coercion and Compromise: Diplomacy of Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991, by Gordon S. Brown. Islamist Impasse, by Ibrahim Karawan. Faces of Lebanon - Sects, Wars and Global Extensions, by William Harris. The Reconstruction of Palestine: Urban and Rural Development, edited by A. B. Zahlan. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey, by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. The Turkish Labyrinth: Ataturk and the New Islam, by James Pettifer.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Melville, Elinor G.K. (1997), A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico Pérez, Louis A. Jr; (1998), The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Topik, Steven C. and Wells, Allen (eds.) (1998), The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom 1850–1930 Berke, Phillip R. and Beatley, Timothy (1997), After the hurricane: linking recovery to sustainable development in the Caribbean Randall, Stephen, J. and Mount, Graeme, S. (1998), The Caribbean Basin an international history Richard Wilson (1995), Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences Judith N. Zur (1998). Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows in Guatemala Stillwaggon Eileen (1998), Stunted Lives, Stunted Economies: Poverty, Disease and Underdevelopment Dye, Alan (1998), Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929 Dominguez Jorge, I. (1997), Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean Simon, J. (1997), Endangered Mexico — An Environment on the Edge Taylor, L. (1998), Citizenship, Participation and Democracy — Changing Dynamics in Chile and Argentina Bantjes, Adrian A. (1998) As If Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora and the Mexican Revolution Cleary, Edward L. and Stewart-Gambino, Elizabeth (eds.) (1997), Power, Politics and Pentecostals in Latin America John Holloway and Eloina Peláez (eds) (1998), Zapatista! Reinventing Revolution in Mexico Marta Durán de Huerta Patiño and Massimo Boldrini (1998), Acteal: Navidad en el Inflerno Carolina Mariá de Jesus (1997), I'm Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus: (Casa de Alvenaria: Diario de uma ex-favelada Gordon, E. (1998), Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African–Nicaraguan Community Tobias, Hecht (1998), At Home In The Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil Duncan, Green (1998), Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean Torres-Saillant, S. (ed.) (1997), Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature Folgarait, Leonard (1998), Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico Taylor, Chris (1998), The Beautiful Game: a Journey Through Latin American Football Wilson, Larman C. and Dent, David W. (1998), Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations