The Israeli-PLO peace accord has reignited Jordan's historical identity crisis. King Hussein,
the Hashemite ruler of a large Palestinian population, must walk a fine line. Native …

Could the plan of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to" disengage" from the Gaza Strip"
include a Jordanian presence" in the West Bank? So Sharon told his cabinet on June 1 …

Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across
the Middle East since the beginning of the year. But the relative calm in Amman is an …

Iraqi feeling led Jordan's regime to ask itself: was it possible notto support Saddam? Now,
despite dealigning from Iraq in the mid-1990s, Jordan may still be the closest friend Saddam …

The Jordan-Israel peace treaty, signed in October 1994, was accompanied on both sides by
high hopes of warm relations between the peoples of the two countries. A wide range of …

One of the interesting leitmotifs surrounding the formation of Israel was the secret political
alliance between the Yishuv and King Abdullah of Transjordan. This alliance undercuts the …

• Jordan's relationship with the United States remains strong. Viewing Jordan as a reliable
and friendly government is nothing new in Washington, but what is new is the determination …

PAUL L. SCHAM and RUSSELL E. LUCAS rom the 1970s until the Jordanian Israeli peace
treaty of 1994, Israel and Jordan maintained quasi-normal, albeit secret, relations. Jordan s …

THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN has long played a regional foreign policy role that
seems to belie its small size and its limite economic and military means. 1 That role in no …

Many would count Jordanian-Israeli normalization among the victims of the new intifada.
Three factors, however, had brought about the death of normalization in Jordan well before …