Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance , by David Gardner.
Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest , by Lawrence Davidson.
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace , by Avi Shlaim.
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life , by Nigel Ashton.
The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran , by Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar.
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization , by Ali A. Allawi.
Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey , by M. Hakan Yavuz.
Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France and Turkey , by Ahmet T. Kuru.     

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 in this article:
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisted , by Benny Morris
The Modern History of Iraq , by Phebe Marr
Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied , by Toby Dodge
Seeds of Hate: How America's Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad , Lawrence Pintak
Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power , ed. Azza Karam
Islamic Political Identity in Turkey , by M. Hakan Yavuz     

Book Reviews

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: I sraeli N ational S ecurity : A N ew C onceptualization
The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force , by Martin Van Creveld.
Knives, Tanks and Missles: Israel's Security Revolution , by Eliot A. Cohen, Michael Eisenstadt and A.J. Bacevich.
Israel and the Bomb , by Avner Cohen.
Rabin and Israel's National Security , by Efraim Inbar.
National Security: The Israeli Experience , by Yisrael Tal
Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination , by Ehud Sprinzak.
The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building , by Barry Rubin.
Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem , by Amir S. Chesin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed.
Islamic Politics in Palestine , by Beverly Milton-Edwards.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege , by Amira Hass. New York:
The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-96 and Beyond , by Helena Cobban.
Bring Down the Walls. Lebanon's Post-War Challenge , by Carole H. Dagher.
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia , by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.     

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.     

Interview With U.N. Ambassador Kamal Kharazi of Iran

Mr. Kharazi is the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. The following interview was conducted in New York City on September 30, 1994, by Thomas R. Mattair, Director of Research and Policy Analysis of the Middle East Policy Council.     

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.     

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:
Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World , by Milton Viorst.
Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery , by Robert Parry.
Islam in History: Ideas, People and Events in the Middle East (New Edition, Revised and Expanded), by Bernard Lewis.
Islam and the West , by Bernard Lewis.
Muquddinuz fiilm al-istighrab (An Introduction to "Occidentalism") , by Hasan Hanafi.
Battle Lines: The American Media and the Intifada , by Jim Lederman.
Turmoil: The Druzes, Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli Conflict , by Najib.
The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century , by Abraham Marcus.     

Policy Critique: Report of the WINEP Presidential Study Group

A Response to Navigating Through Turbulence: America and the Middle East in a New Century . Report of the Presidential Study Group (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 , by William B. Quandt. Securing Peace in the Middle East: Project on Economic Transition , by the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East of the John F. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present , by George W. Ball and Douglas B. Ball. Quagmire: America in the Middle East , by Leon T. Hadar. Sleeping on A Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel , by David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Breaking the Ice: Rapprochement Between East and West Germany, the United States and China and Israel and Egypt , by Tony Armstrong. Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East , by David W. Lesch. The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq , by Kenneth R. Timmerman. After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Postmodernism, Reason and Religion by Ernest Gellner.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy , by Seymour M. Hersh. No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , by Mark A. Heller and Sari Nusseibeh. The Other Walls, the Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective , by Harold H. Saunders. Revised edition. Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank , by George Emile Bisharat. Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East , by John K. Cooley. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process , by Alistair Drysdale and Raymond A. Hinnebush. Egypt and the ArabsndashForeign Policy and the Search for National Identity , by Joseph P. Lorenz. Kissing through Glass: The Invisible Shield between Americans and Israelis , by Joyce R. Starr. Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk about Their Lives , by Bouthaina Shaaban.     

Book reviews

The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis edited by Martin Kramer. Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1999. Pp.viii + 311. $24.95. ISBN 965–224–040–0.

Kordofan Invaded, Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa edited by Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane. Leiden‐Boston‐Koln: Brill, 1998. Pp.x + 303, bibliography, index and illustrations. $94.00. ISBN 9004110496.

War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I by Donald M. McKale. Kent, Ohio and London: The Kent State University Press 1998. Pp.xxii + 332, bibliography, index. $39.00. ISBN 87338–602–7.

Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy by G. Norman Anderson. Gainesville: University of Florida, 1999. Pp. xvii + 277, bibliography, index. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1671–1.

Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century by Ali Gheissari. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 199, bibliography, index. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–72760–7.

An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'ati by Ali Rahnema. London: IB. Tauris, 1998. Pp.xiii + 402, bibliography, index. £39.50 (cloth). ISBN 1–86064–118–0.     

Implications of the U.S. Reaction to the World Court Rulingagainst Israel's"Separation Barrier"

Dr. Zunes is a professor of politics and chair of the peace and justice studies program at the University of San Francisco. He serves as Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project ( http://www.fpif.org ) and is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 , by Melissa Boyle Mahle
Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East , edited by Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway
Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain , by Tariq Modood
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism , by Robert A. Pape
The Path to Geneva: The Quest for a Permanent Agreement , 1996–2004, by Yossi Beilin
West Bank Diary: Middle East Violence as Reported by a Former American Hostage , by Jerry Levin
The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys Through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies , by Dilip Hiro
Germany and the Middle East, 1871–1945 , edited by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz     

Symposium: Reexamining The Arab-Israeli Peace Process

The following is an edited version of the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Middle East Policy Council on March 9, 1995, in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Former Senator George McGovern, president of the Middle East Policy Council, introduced the panel. The organizer and moderator was Thomas R. Mattair, the council'S director of research and policy analysis.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East , by Geoffrey Kemp and Robert Harkavy. Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE: Challenges of Security , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Kuwait: Recovery and Security after the Gulf War , by Anthony H. Cordesman. U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Resources and Capabilities , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region , edited by Roberto Aliboni, George Joffé, and Tim Niblock. War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications , by Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? Edited by John L. Esposito. The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East , by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers , by Mohammed Arkoun; translated and edited by Robert D. Lee. A Lebanon Defied: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a Community , by Majed Halawi. Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment , by J.J. Goldberg.