The North Pacific triangle: Sources of economic and political transforation

This article explores the changing economic and security relationships among the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with particular attention to the implications of post-1985 exchange-rate shifts for political and economic stability in these three nations. The author argues that the stability and cohesion of this strategically important North Pacific triangle, the only point outside Europe where the economic and military superpowers all adjoin one American to the Japanese market as the locus of regional growth, due to disproportionate and destabilizing adjustment costs being imposed on South Korea. Expanded American, and especially Japanese support initiatives are the principal alternatives to intensified Korean reliance on continental Asia, the article maintains.     

Assessing the Debate, Assessing the Damage: Transatlantic Relations after Bush

Transatlantic relations during the Bush administration sank to the lowest point in the post-war period following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This article provides an analysis of both the current state of that relationship and the academic debate which accompanies it. Arguments over the impact of various factors are analysed to determine the extent of transatlantic divergence. Thus, demographic change in America and Europe, divergence of political values between Europe and America, power differences, post-war geopolitical realignments, European integration and American unilateralism and exceptionalism are all analysed and evaluated. While some of these arguments presented are challenged, the article argues that the process of constructing separate European and American identities from within the transatlantic community is the single most significant contemporary challenge to transatlantic relations.     

Two volumes of the journal of Arabic literature

L. Strauss, in his book Persecution And The Art Of Writing

Yusuf al‐Sharuni in his book Al‐Riwaya Wa Al‐Qissa Al‐Qasira

Ghali Shukri in his book Shi'runa al‐Haîith îla ayna

Ghassan Kanafani in Rijal fi al‐Shams,Al‐Tayyib Salih in Mawsim al‐Hijra Ila al‐Shimal, and Najib Mahfuz in Tharthara Fawq al‐Nil. Jisr al‐Shatan by Abd al‐Hamid Jawdat al‐Sahhar     

The Image of America as Reflected in Contemporary Arabic Novels

This study analyses how America and the American people are reflected in Arabic novels written in different parts of the Arab world. In a number of novels the depiction of America and Americans is incidental, while in others it constitutes a fundamental element of the composition. The study inquires into the way Americans are described as individuals and as representative types in works of literature. We find that the image of Americans in the novels which constituted the corpus of the study is overwhelmingly negative. The reason for this appears to lie in America's pro-Israel policy and its opposition to numerous people's aspirations for freedom and progress.