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Volume XXVI, Winter 2019, Number 4

Editor's Note

Editor's Note - Winter 2019

Journal Essays

Symposium — The United States, Israel and Palestine: An Assessment.

Symposium — The United States, Israel and Palestine: An Assessment.

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Interview: The German-Israeli "Special Relationship

Interview: The German-Israeli "Special Relationship

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Israel and South Sudan: A Convergence of Interests

Israel and South Sudan: A Convergence of Interests

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The EU and the Mideast Order: Ideology vs. Power Balancing

The EU and the Mideast Order: Ideology vs. Power Balancing

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Maritime Security in the Persian Gulf

Maritime Security in the Persian Gulf

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Azerbaijan and Iran: A Shift in Geopolitical Gravity

Azerbaijan and Iran: A Shift in Geopolitical Gravity

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Russia’s Imprint in Iraqi Kurdistan: Rosneft’s Ascendancy

Russia’s Imprint in Iraqi Kurdistan: Rosneft’s Ascendancy

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The Taliban Regime in Afghanistan: En Route to International Recognition?

The Taliban Regime in Afghanistan: En Route to International Recognition?

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Book Reviews

Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump

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Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed

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The Economy of the Gulf States

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The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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Book Review Essay: The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924

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Volume XXVI, Fall 2019, Number 3

Editor's Note

Fall 2019 Editorial

Journal Essays

Symposium — The United States-Saudi Arabian Relationship

Symposium — The United States-Saudi Arabian Relationship

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The Middle East after Khashoggi

The Middle East after Khashoggi

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Public Finance in Saudi Arabia

Public Finance in Saudi Arabia

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Religion, the State and Politics In Saudi Arabia

Religion, the State and Politics In Saudi Arabia

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From Defense to Offense: Realist Shifts in Saudi Foreign Policy

From Defense to Offense: Realist Shifts in Saudi Foreign Policy

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The Middle East Post-Petroleum: Averting the Storm

The Middle East Post-Petroleum: Averting the Storm

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Nested Game of Elections in Iran

Nested Game of Elections in Iran

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Iran and Russia Pivot to the East: Was It U.S. Pressure?

Iran and Russia Pivot to the East: Was It U.S. Pressure?

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Shia Militias and Exclusionary Politics In Iraq

Shia Militias and Exclusionary Politics In Iraq

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Book Reviews

Book Review — The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

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Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East

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The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice

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Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty

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Egyptian Advice Columnists: Envisioning the Good Life in an Era Of Extremism

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Volume XXVI, Summer 2019, Number 2

Editor's Note

Summer 2019 Editorial

Journal Essays

The Future of U.S. Engagement in the Middle East

The Future of U.S. Engagement in the Middle East

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Military Orientalism: Middle East Ways of War

Military Orientalism: Middle East Ways of War

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Chinese and Russian Influence in the Middle East

Chinese and Russian Influence in the Middle East

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Book Excerpt: Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia and the CIA (Praeger, 2019).

Book Excerpt: Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia and the CIA (Praeger, 2019).

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JCPOA Collapse: Will Proliferation Follow?

JCPOA Collapse: Will Proliferation Follow?

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Iran's Transition to Renewable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

Iran's Transition to Renewable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

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Russia's Policy in the Libyan Civil War: A Cautious Engagement

Russia's Policy in the Libyan Civil War: A Cautious Engagement

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Qadhafi's Nuclear Quest: The Key to North Korea's?

Qadhafi's Nuclear Quest: The Key to North Korea's?

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Mauritania's Anti-Qatar Animus

Mauritania's Anti-Qatar Animus

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Book Reviews

Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

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A Modest Proposal to Solve the Palestine-Israel Conflict

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Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies

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Israel under Siege: The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neorevisionist Right

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Türklük Sözleşmesi: Oluşumu, İşleyişi ve Krizi [The Turkishness Contract: Its Formation, Functioning, and Crisis]

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Honor-Related Violence: A New Social Psychological Perspective

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