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Volume XX Spring 2013 Number 1

Editor's Note

Editorial (Spring 2013)

Journal Essays

U.S. Grand Strategy in the Middle East: Is There One?

U.S. Grand Strategy in the Middle East: Is There One?

A WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East?

A WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East?

Lebanon: Hybrid Sovereignties and U.S. Foreign Policy

Lebanon: Hybrid Sovereignties and U.S. Foreign Policy

Syria Contextualized: The Numbers Game

Syria Contextualized: The Numbers Game

Kurdish Oil Politics in Iraq: Contested Sovereignty and Unilateralism

Kurdish Oil Politics in Iraq: Contested Sovereignty and Unilateralism

Turkey's Mediation: Critical Reflections From the Field

Turkey's Mediation: Critical Reflections From the Field

A Work in Progress: The New Turkish Foreign Policy

A Work in Progress: The New Turkish Foreign Policy

Turkish-Israeli Relations: Their Rise and Fall

Turkish-Israeli Relations: Their Rise and Fall

Turkish-Syrian Relations: From Friend "Esad" to Enemy "Esed"

Turkish-Syrian Relations: From Friend "Esad" to Enemy "Esed"

Transition in the Middle East: New Arab Realities and Iran

Transition in the Middle East: New Arab Realities and Iran

EU Sanctions on Iran: The European Political Context

EU Sanctions on Iran: The European Political Context

Twilight of Colonialism: Mossadegh And the Suez Crisis

Twilight of Colonialism: Mossadegh And the Suez Crisis

Review Essay— The Elusive Arab-Israeli Peace

Review Essay— The Elusive Arab-Israeli Peace

Review Essay— Lebanon: The Challenge of Moving Analysis beyond the State

Review Essay— Lebanon: The Challenge of Moving Analysis beyond the State

Book Reviews

Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq

Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan

Volume IV Number 2 Summer 1986

Journal Essays

What Eisenhower and Dulles Saw in Nasser: Personalities and Interests in U.S.-Egyptian Relations

What Eisenhower and Dulles Saw in Nasser: Personalities and Interests in U.S.-Egyptian Relations

Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 2012

Editor's Note

Editorial (Winter 2012)

Journal Essays

Policy Choices for the New Administration

Policy Choices for the New Administration

Change without Progress in the Middle East

Change without Progress in the Middle East

Corporate Social Responsibility in Saudi Arabia

Corporate Social Responsibility in Saudi Arabia

The UAE, the "Arab Spring" and Different Types of Dissent

The UAE, the "Arab Spring" and Different Types of Dissent

The Political Costs of Qatar's Western Orientation

The Political Costs of Qatar's Western Orientation

Re-Orientalizing the Gulf: The GCC and Southeast Asia

Re-Orientalizing the Gulf: The GCC and Southeast Asia

Economic Sanctions on Authoritarian States: Lessons Learned

Economic Sanctions on Authoritarian States: Lessons Learned

How Turkey's Islamists Fell out of Love With Iran

How Turkey's Islamists Fell out of Love With Iran

Hezbollah's Survival: Resources and Relationships

Hezbollah's Survival: Resources and Relationships

Pre-emptive Strike against Iran: Prelude to an Avoidable Disaster?

Pre-emptive Strike against Iran: Prelude to an Avoidable Disaster?

Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization

Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization

Dear President Obama: "It Is the Innocence which Constitutes the Crime…"

Dear President Obama: "It Is the Innocence which Constitutes the Crime…"

Book Reviews

Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector

Gideon's Spies and Spies Against Armageddon

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims

The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life