During his mid-March" victory tour" of the Middle East, Secretary of State James Baker voiced the pious wish that Desert Storm might be" the last great battle in the Middle East/'1 …
A Galal, H Selim - Middle East Development Journal, 2013 - World Scientific
This paper reviews the development experience of the Arab countries since World War II, arguing that the lack of inclusive economic and political institutions is the primary cause for …
Z Swaidan, M Nica - Middle East, 2002 - ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu
This article examines the 1990-1991 Kuwait crisis's damaging effect on Jordan's economy. Trade with Iraq was an important aspect of Jordan's economy and transshipment from …
S Brannon - The Arab Studies Journal, 1994 - JSTOR
The essential interest of the United States in the Persian Gulf is the preservation of stable oil supplies at tolerable prices. In the absence of high prices to spur conservation and the …
While oil wealth has enriched some Middle East Arab nations, others that lack oil resources have remained poor and are looking now to their oil-rich neighbors for development …
B Tibi - The Middle East Dilemma: the politics and economics …, 1999 - books.google.com
Since the creation of the Arab state system in the wake of the decolonization of Arab lands (Fromkin 1989), the rhetoric of pan-Arab unity has been the prevailing pretension in inter …
N Sultan, D Weir, Z Karake-Shalhoub - 2012 - books.google.com
The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states …
AR Abboud, NN Minow - Foreign Aff., 2002 - HeinOnline
The Arab-Israeli conflict has defied peace-opportunity for the investment of talent ful accommodation, let alone resolution, for and creativity and multiple avenues for more than …