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Arab-Israeli Politics Page

25 April 1999
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REGIONAL SURVEYS

Field, Michael, Inside the Arab World (Harvard 1994)

Hiro, Dilip, Dictionary of the Middle East (London: Macmillan 1996)

Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (Yale 1977)

Ismael, Tareq, Politics and Government in the Middle East and North Africa

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Owen, Roger, State, Power, and Politics (Routledge, 1992)

Polk, William R., The Arab World Today (Harvard 1991)

Sluglett, Peter & Marion Farouk-S The Times Guide to the ME (Westview 1996)

Frank Tachau, ed., Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa (Greenwood,1994)


ISRAELI POLITICS

Asher Arian, The Second Republic: Politics in Israel (Chatham House, 1997)

Barnett, Michael N., ed., Israel in Comparative Perspective (SUNY Albany 1996)

Barzilai, Gad Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the ME (SUNY Albany, 1996)

Flamhaft, Ziva, Israel on the Road to Peace (Westview 1996)

Freedman, Robert O., Israel Under Rabin (Westview 1994)

Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (Anchor pb.1990)

*Y. Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Hour (Harper and Row, 1989)

Horowitz, Dan & Moshe Lissak, Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel (SUNY Albany 1996)

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Lustick, Ian, For the land and the Lord : Jewish fundamentalism in Israel. / New York, N.Y. 1988

Lustick, Ian, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Cornell, 1993)

Lustick, Ian, and Barry Rubin, eds., Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics and Culture (Albany: SUNY Press pb. $12.95, 1990)

MacBride, Sean, Israel in Lebanon

Mahler, Gregory S., Israel after Begin. (Albany 1990)

Makovsky, David, Making Peace with the PLO (Westview 1995)

Orr, Akiva, The unJewish State: the Politics of Jewish identity in Israel (London: Ithaca Press, 1983).

Peretz, D., The Government and Politics of Israel, 2nd ed.

Plessner, Yakir, The Political Economy of Israel: from ideology to stagnation (SUNY Albany, 1997)

Rabinovich, I., and Reinharz, eds., Israel in the Middle East

Reich, Bernard, The United States and Israel (Praeger, 1984)

M. Roman and A. Weingrod, Living Together Separately (Princeton, 1991)

Segev, Tom, The First Israelis (NY: Free Press, 1986)

Shipler, David, Arab and Jew (Penguin, 1986 Pullitzer prize)

Weitzer, Ronald, Transforming Settler States (UC Press 1990)

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, The Controversy of Zion (London: Sinclair-Stevenson 1996)

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PALESTINIAN POLITICS

Abdou, Hassan M and Ahmad F Zouaiter, Palestine: Positioning a New Nation (Harvard Business School, 1996)

Aburish, Saïd K., Cry Palestine: Inside the West Bank (Westview, 1993)

Alexander, Yonah, and Joshua Sinai, Terrorism: The PLO Connection, New York: Crane Russak, 1989.

Braizat, Musa S., The Jordanian-Palestinian Relationship (St Martin's 1998)

Brand, Laurie A., Palestinians in the Arab World (NY: Columbia, 1988)

Brynen, Rex, ed., Echoes of the Intifada, Boulder: Westview, 1991.

Cobban, Helena, The Palestinian Liberation Organization

Samih Farhoun, Palestine and the Palestinians (Westview 1997)

E. Fernea and M. Hocking, eds., Israelis and Palestinians: The Struggle for Peace (UT Press pb., 1992)

Hiltermann, Joost R., Behind the Intidada:Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories, Princeton, 1992 ($14.95 pb)

Hart, Alan, Arafat: A Political Biography (Indiana Univ Press pb., 1988).

Hunter, F. Robert, The Patlestinian Uprising (U of Calif Press, 1993 pb)

Khalidi, Rashid, Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (NY: Columbia, 1985)

Khalidi, Rashid, Palestinian Identity: the Construction of Modern Consciousness (Columbia, 1997)

B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984)--if you can't find or afford to buy the 1991 edition.

McDowell, David, Palestine and Israel: the Uprising and Beyond (U of California Press, 1989)

Mishal, Shaul, PLO under Arafat: between gun and olive branch (Yale, 1986).

Norton, A. Richard, and M.H. Greenberg, The International Relations of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Carbondale: S. Illinois Univ Press, 1989

*Peretz, Don, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising (Westview, 1990, $14.95)

Glenn E. Robinson, Building a Palestinian State (Indiana UP, 1997)

Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip (Washington: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1995)

Sahliyeh, E., West Bank Politics since 1967 (Brookings, 1988)

Said, Edward, After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (NY, 1986)

Said, Edward, and C. Hitchens, eds., Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question (London: Verso, 1988)

Zahlan, A.B. ed., The Reconsruction of Palestine (London: Kegan Paul 1997)

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EGYPT

Butros Ghali, Egypt's Road to Jerusalem (Random House, 1997)

Copley, Gregory R. , Defense & FA Handbook: Egypt (London 1995 )

Heikal, M., Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat

B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984)--if you can't find or afford to buy the 1991 edition.

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Robert Springborg, Mubarak's Egypt (Westview Press, 1989)

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JORDAN

Braizat, Musa S., The Jordanian-Palestinian Relationship (St Martin's 1998)

Day, Arthur, Jordan: East Bank West Bank

B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984)--if you can't find or afford to buy the 1991 edition.

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

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IRAQ

Baram, Amatzia and Barry Rubin, Iraq's Road to War (St Martin's 1996)

Helms, C.M. Iraq: The Eastern Flank of the Arab World

Khadduri, Majid, The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict (NY: Oxford University Press, 1988)

B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984)--if you can't find or afford to buy the 1991 edition.

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

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LEBANON

*Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (pb edition 1991)

*Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (Anchor pb. 1990)

Haddad, Wadi D., Lebanon: the Politics of Revolving Doors

Harris, William, Faces of Lebanon (Markus Wiener 1996)

Hanf, Theodor, Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon: Decline of a state and rise of a nation (London: IB Tauris & Center for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, 1994)

Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

Khalaf, Samir, Lebanon's Predicament (NY: Columbia, 1987)

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

MacBride, Sean, Israel in Lebanon

Petran, Tabitha, The Struggle over Lebanon (Monthly Rev Press, 1987)

Rabinovich, I., The War for Lebanon, 2nd printing 1985.

Randal, J., Going All the Way

Salem, Elie, Violence & Diplomacy in Lebanon (London: Tauris 1995)

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SYRIA

Dawisha, Adeed, The Arab Radicals (1986).

Drysdale, A. and R Hinnebusch, Syria and the Middle East Peace Process (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1991)

Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984)--if you can't find or afford to buy the 1991 edition.

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Perthes, Volker, The Political Economy of Syria under Asad (IB Tauris, London 1995)

Seale, Patrick, Asad (U of Cal. Press, 1989)

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PERSIAN (OR ARAB) GULF STATES

Abir, Mordechai, Saudi Arabia (Routledge 1993)

Aburish, Said K., The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud (St Martins 1995)

John Duke Anthony, Arab States of the Lower Gulf (Washington, D.C., 1975)

Abdul-Reda Assiri, Kuwait's Foreign Policy (Westview 1990)

Cordesman, Anthony H., The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security, 1984-87 (New York and London: Jane's. 1987)

Crystal, Jill, Oil and politics in the Gulf: rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Finnie, David, Shifting Lines in the Sand (Harvard 1992)

Gause, F. Gregory III, Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf Oil States, New York: Council on Foreign relations, 1994

Holden and Johns, The House of Saud (Penguin, 1983)

Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

Kechichian, Joseph, Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (Rand MR-680-RC 1995)

Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Quandt, W.B., Saudi Arabia (Brookings, 1984)

Safran, N., Saudi Arabia

Schofield, Richard, ed., Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States (St Martins 1994)

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INTRA-ARAB RELATIONS

Ajami, Fouad, The Arab Predicament (Cambridge Univ Press, 1981)

Dawisha, Adeed, The Arab Radicals (NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1986)

Kerr, Malcolm H., Arab Cold War.

Kerr, M.H., and Yassin, eds., Rich and Poor States in the Middle East: Egypt and the New Arab Order (Westview, 1981).

B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1991)

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HISTORIES OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Bialer, Uri, Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1963 (St Antony's Macmillan 1998)

*Bookbinder, H., and J.G. Abourezk, Through Different Eyes (1987). An excellent debate by American supporters of Israel and the Palestinians.

Curtis, Michael, ed., The Middle East Reader (Transaction Books, 1986)

Dumper, Michael, The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967 (Columbia UP, 1997)

Drysdale, A. and G.H. Blake, The Middle East and North Africa: A Political Geography (N.Y.: Oxford University Press pb., 1985)

Flapan, Simha, The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (NY: Panethon)

T.G. Fraser, The Arab-Israeli Conflict (NY: St. Martin's, 1995)

Garnham, David & Mark Tessler eds., Democracy War and Peace in the Middle East (Indiana, 1995)

Herzog, Chaim, The Arab-Israeli Wars (Vintage, 1984)

Hirst, David, The Gun and the Olive Branch (Faber, 1984)

DS 119.7 H545 1977 Undergraduate Library

Hurewitz, J.C., The Struggle for Palestine (1950; Schocken Books, 1976).

Lenczowski, George, The Middle East in World Affairs, 4th ed. (1980).

Louis, Wm. Roger and R.W. Stookey, The End of the Palestinian Mandate (UT pb, 1986)

Mandel, Neville J., The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I (U of Calif pb. 1980)

Mattar, Philip, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni (NY 1988)

*Moore, John Norton, ed., The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Princeton, 1974, 3 volumes of historical documents).

Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Arab Refugee Problem (Cambridge, 1987)

Muslih, Muhammad, The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism (NY 1988)

Palumbo, Michael, The Palestinian Catastrophe (London: Quartet, 1989) LAW DS 126.954 P35 1987 Law Library

Said, Edward, Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (London, 1988)

DS 119.7 B5765 1988 PCL Stacks, UGL

Shlaim, Avi, The Politics of Partition, 1921-1951 (NY: Columbia, 1990)

Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 3rd edition (St. Martin¹s Press, 1996)

Sykes, Christopher, Crossroads to Israel 1917-1948

Tessler, Mark, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (U of Indiana Press, 1994)

Touval, Saadia, The Peace Brokers (Princeton, 1982)

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UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY

Ball, George W., Error and Betrayal in Lebanon (Foundation for Middle East Peace,1522 K St., N.W., Suite 202, Washington, D.C. 20005, 1984)

*G.W. and D.B. Ball, The Passionate Attachment (Norton pb 1993) opt

James A. Bill, The Eagle and the Lion: the Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988)

James A. Bill, George Ball: behind the scenes in US foreign policy (Yale 1997)

Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey, The Water's Edge and Beyond: Defining the Limits to Domestic Influence on United States Middle East Policy (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991)

Burkowitz, Bruce D., and Allan E. Goodman, Strategic Intelligence for American National Security, Princeton Univ Press, 1991

Carter, Jimmy, The Blood of Abraham

Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy (London 1991)

Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Boston, 1983)

Noam Chomsky, Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World (1986)

Curtiss, R.H., A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute (American Educational Trust, P.O. Box 53062, Washington D.C., 1986)

Curtiss, RH, Stealth PACs: How Israel's American Lobby Took Control of US

Middle Eastern Policy (Washington, DC: American Educ Trust, 1990)

Emerson, Steven, The American House of Saud

Findley, Paul, They Dare to Speak Out (Lawrence Hill, 1985)

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Findley, Paul, Deliberate Deceptions (Lawrence Hill, 1993)

Henry Kissinger, The White House Years (various editions)

George Lenczowski, American Presidents and the Middle East (Duke U. Press, 1990)

Donald Neff, Fallen Pillars (Washington: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1995)

William B. Quandt, Peace Process (Brookings pb, 1993)

Quandt, W.B., Camp David, Brookings, 1986.

Organski, A.F.K., The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Assistance in US Assistance to Israel (NY: Columbia, 1990)

Payaslian, Simon, US Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Administrations (UP of America 1995)

Platt, Alan, ed., Arms Control and Confidence Building in the Middle East, US Inst of Peace, 1992.

D.T. Regan, For the Record (St. Martin's pb., 1988)

Reich, Walter, ed., Origins of Terrorism, Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1990

Rubenberg, Cheryl A., Israel and the American National Interest (U of IL pb., 1986)

E 183.8 I7 R83 1986 PCL Stacks

Sicherman, Harvey ,Palestinian Austonomy, Self-Government, and Peace (Westview, 1993)

Spiegel, Steven L., The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict (U of Chicago Press, 1985)

Spiegel, S.L. et al, eds., The Soviet-American Competition in the Middle East (D.C.Heath, 1988)

Spiegel, Steven L., ed., Conflict Management in the Middle East (Westview, 1991)

Richard Stevens, American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942-1947 (1962, 1970).

Suleiman, Michael, ed., U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton (Washington: AAUG Press, 1995)

Raymond Tanter, Who's at the Helm: Lessons of Lebanon (Westview, 1990)

Telhami, Shibley, Power and Leadership in International bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (Columbia UP, 1990)

Tillman, Seth, The United States and the Middle East

*Tivnan, Edward, The Lobby (Simon and Schuster, 1987)

Turner, Stansfield, Terrorism and Democracy, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991

Wells, S.F, Jr. and M. Bruzonsky, Security in the Middle East: Regional Change and Great Power Strategies (Westview pb., 1987)

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MILITARY-STRATEGIC

Aronson, Shlomo, The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East: Opacity, Theory and Reality, 1960-91--An Israeli Perspective, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1993.

Michael N. Barnett, Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel (Princeton 1992)

Anthony H. Cordesman, Perilous Prospects: the Peace Process and the Arab-israeli Military Balance (Westview 1996)

Goodman, Hirsh, and W. S. Carus, The Future Battlefield and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Transaction Publishers, 1989; $16.95; tel (201) 932-2280).

*Seymour M. Hersh, The Sampson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (NY: Random House, 1991)

Jabber, Paul, Not by War Alone (U of Cal Press, 1981).

Kemp, Geoffrey, Strategic Geography and the changing Middle East (Brookings, 1997)

Licklider, Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon: The Experience of Five Industrial Nations (U of Calif Press, 1988)

Miriam R. Lowi, Water and power (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Parker, Richard B., The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East (Indiana pb 1993)

United Nations, The Blue Helmets: A Review of United Nations Peace-Keeping, 2nd ed. (New York: United Nations, 1991).

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EEC COUNTRIES

Greilsammer, Alain, Europe's Middle East Dilemma: the quest for a unified stance (Boulder, 1987, in PCL stacks: DS 63.2 E8 G73 1987)

Ilgen, Thomas L., Trading Technology: Europe and Japan in the Middle East (New York, 1987, in PCL HC 415.15 I45 1987)

Miller, Linda, The Limits of Alliance: America, Europe, and the Middle East (Jerusalem, 1974, in PCL DS 63.2 U5 M54)

Roberson, B.A., The Middle East and Europe: the power deficit (London: Routledge 1998)

 

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PEACE PROCESS

Bar-On, Mordechai, In Pursuit of Peace (US Inst of Peace, 1996)

Ben-Meir, Alon, A Framework for Arab-Israeli Peace (Robert, St. Louis, MO, 1993)

Ben Shahar, Haim, G. Fiselson and Z Hirsch eds., Economic Cooperation and Middle East Peace (London: Widenfeld & Nicholson 1988)

Cordesman, Anthony H., Perilous Prospects: the Peace Process and the Arab-Israeli Balance Westview 1996

Dumper, Michael, The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967 (NY: Columbia UP 1997)

Mark A. Heller and Sari Nusseibeh, No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (NY: Hill and Wang, 1991)

Heikal, Mohammed H., Secret Channels: The Inside Story of Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations Harper Collins, London 1996

J Kipper and H Saunders, Middle East in Global Perspective (Westview, 1991)

Lukacs, Yehuda, Israel Jordan and the Peace Process (Syracuse, 1997)

Michael Mandelbaum, "Israel and the Occupied Territories." (NY: Council on Foreign Relations), $3.95.

E. Mendelsohn, A Compassionate Peace (Noonday, 1989) opt

Peleg, Ian, ed., The Middle East Peace Process (SUNY Albany 1997)

Don Peretz, Palestinians, Refugees, and the Middle East Peace Process (US Institute of Peace, 1993)

W.B. Quandt, ed., The Middle East (Brookings, 1988)

William B. Quandt, Peace Process (Brookings pb, 1993)

Sela, Avraham, The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (SUNY Albany, 1997)

Zahlan, A.B. ed., The Reconsruction of Palestine (London: Kegan Paul 1997)

 


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