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1 SUB Hamburg A/ THE WEST AND THE MIDDLE EAST Critical Concepts in Political Science Edited by Barry Rubin Volume I Issues in Europe-Middle East Relations R Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

2 Acknowledgements xv Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xvii Introduction 1 VOLUME I ISSUES IN EUROPE-MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS PARTI US-Europe and the Middle East 3 1 Trading places: America and Europe in the Middle East 5 PHILIP H. GORDON PART 2 The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: trade and development 17 2 Europe in the Middle East and Northern Africa: the subtle quest for power 19 NIVIEN SALEH 3 The Barcelona Process and Euro-Arab economic relations, RORY MILLER AND ASHRAF MISHRIF 4 A 'ring of friends'? The implications of the European Neighbourhood Policy for the Mediterranean 47 ELISABETH JOHANSSON-NOGUES

3 PART 3 The Iran issue 55 5 French trade and sanctions against Iran 57 MICHEL MAKINSKY 6 The power of petroeuros: the EU-3 vs. Iran 77 NIZAN FELDMAN PART 4 Maghreb relations 87 7 Partnership lost? The EU's Mediterranean aid programmes 89 PATRICK HOLDEN 8 The Algerian crisis in European and US foreign policies: a hindsight analysis 111 HAKIM DARBOUCHE AND YAHIA H. ZOUBIR 9 The stability syndrome: US and EU democracy promotion in Tunisia 141 BRIEG TOMOS POWEL 10 Altruism and its limits: the role of civil and political rights for American and French aid towards the Middle East and North Africa 165 MIQUEL PELLICER AND EVA WEGNER 11 The European challenge to North African economies: the downside to the Euro-Med policy 181 JON MARKS 12 The social impact of Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Areas: a first approach with special reference to the case of Morocco 192 IVAN MARTfN PARTS Security issues European approaches to security in the Mediterranean 233 RICHARD YOUNGS VI

4 14 The Euro-Mediterranean security partnership: prospects for arms limitation and confidence-building 253 FRED TANNER 15 The changing Mediterranean security environment: a transatlantic perspective 271 IAN O. LESSER 16 Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East 287 KENNETH B. MOSS 17 Middle East Islamism in the European arena 301 REUVEN PAZ 18 NATO and the broader Middle East, : the history and lessons of controversial encounters 314 STEN RYNNING VOLUME II COUNTRY STUDIES IN EUROPE-MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS Acknowledgements ix PART 6 Central Europe 1 19 Central Europe and Iraq: balance, bandwagon, or bridge? 3 MATTHEW RHODES PART 7 France Sarkozy's policy in the Middle-East: a break with the past? 19 TSILLA HERSHCO 21 France and the US: the inevitable clash? 33 THIERRY TARDY 22 France, Europe, and the Mediterranean in a Sarkozy presidency 52 NORMAN BOWEN Vll

5 23 Chirac's 'new Arab policy' and Middle East challenges: the Arab-Israeli conflict, Iraq and Iran 66 PIA CHRISTINA WOOD PART 8 Germany Gulf War: the German resistance 89 ANJA DALGAARD-NIELSEN 25 German foreign policy towards the Middle East in the 1990s and beyond 105 MARTIN BECK 26 Friendship under strain or fundamental alienation? Germany-US relations after the Iraq war 130 MARKUS KAIM PART 9 Italy Italy's role in Mediterranean security and the fight against terrorism 147 GIANFRANCO FINI 28 Constraints and adjustments in Italy's policy toward Israel 159 JACOB ABADI 29 The Mediterranean community and the EU: the Italian perspective 190 FRANCO CARDINI PART 10 Spain Did terrorism sway Spain's election? 197 CHARLES POWELL 31 The tragedy of Al-Andalus: the Madrid terror attacks and the Islamization of Spanish politics 208 ANTHONY CELSO VU1

6 PART 11 The UK Britain and the occupied territories after the 1967 War 223 MOSHE GAT 33 British Middle East policy: the counterterrorism dimension 237 ISAAC KFIR 34 An analytical and historical overview of British policy toward Israel 266 JONATHAN SPYER 35 British policy in the Arab-Israeli arena JONATHAN RYNHOLD AND JONATHAN SPYER 36 The United States, Great Britain, and the Middle East: how special the relationship? 317 JOHN CALABRESE 37 Tony Blair, Iraq and the special relationship: poodle or partner? 339 JANE M. O. SHARP PART 12 Bilateral relations Saudi-European relations : a pragmatic quest for relative autonomy 365 GERD NONNEMAN 39 European and American responses to the Algerian crisis 399 MARIA DO CEU PINTO 40 Troubled neighbours: the EU and Israel 416 RORY MILLER 41 The EU and the Middle East: an Egyptian view 439 EMAD GAD IX

7 VOLUME III RELATIONS US-MIDDLE EAST: ISSUES IN Acknowledgements ix PART 13 Overviews 1 42 U.S. Middle East policy in the Ch'nton second term 3 ROBERT J. LIEBER 43 U.S. policy toward the Middle East in Clinton's second term 8 ROBERT O. FREEDMAN 44 Understanding the Bush doctrine 38 ROBERT JERVIS 45 Dangerous democracy? American internationalism and the greater Near East 64 P. H. LIOTTA AND JAMES F. MISKEL 46 American foreign policy towards the Middle East: a necessary change? 77 STEVEN R. DAVID 47 U.S. Middle East policy: too many challenges and yet a single theme 105 BARRY RUBIN 48 The truth about U.S. Middle East policy 120 BARRY RUBIN PART 14 US-Israel The United States and Israel since 1948: A "special relationship"? 155 YAACOV BAR-SIMAN-TOV 50 Friendly restraint: U.S.-Israel relations during the Gulf Crisis of SCOTT B. LASENSKY

8 51 Paradigm lost? The limits of the American-Israeli special relationship 203 ABRAHAM BEN-ZVI 52 Patron-client dynamics: mapping the American-Israeli relationship 227 DAVID RODMAN PART 15 The Arab-Israeli conflict and the peace process Israeli-American relations and the peace process 251 JONATHAN RYNHOLD 54 The Bush Administration and the Arab-Israeli conflict: the record of its first four years 271 ROBERT O. FREEDMAN PART 16 Arab perceptions of America Arab liberals argue about America 295 BARRY RUBIN 56 Anti-Americanism in North Africa: could state relations overcome popular resentment? 307 YAHIA H. ZOUBIR AND LOUISA AIT-HAMADOUCHE 57 Muslim attitude towards terrorism against the US: a case study of Lebanon 332 SIMON HADDAD PART 17 Economic policy US Middle East economic policy: the use of Free Trade Areas in the war on terrorism 349 ROBERT LOONEY 59 United States energy policy during the 1990s 363 PAUL L. JOSKOW XI

9 PART 18 Iran and America The Iranian crisis and the dynamics of advice and intelligence in the Carter Administration 397 PENELOPE KINCH 61 Impacts of the US trade and financial sanctions on Iran 409 AKBAR E. TORBAT 62 United States' policy towards Iran after the Islamic revolution: an Iranian perspective 437 ENAYATOLLAH YAZDANI AND RIZWAN HUSSAIN VOLUME IV EVENTS US-MIDDLE EAST: SUB-REGIONS AND Acknowledgements vii PART 19 The Iraq War 1 63 Sanctions on Iraq: a valid anti-american grievance? 3 MICHAEL RUBIN 64 Searching for a post-saddam regional security architecture 23 JAMES A. RUSSELL 65 Passing the baton: an Obama Administration takes on the chauenge of Iraq 42 KENNETH M. POLLACK 66 U.S.-Kurdish relations in post-invasion Iraq 56 ARAM RAFAAT 67 Reality bites: the impending logic of withdrawal from Iraq 70 BARRY RUBIN 68 Revisions in need of revising: what went wrong in the Iraq war 83 DAVID C. HENDRICKSON AND ROBERT W. TUCKER Xll

10 69 Ignoring history: U.S. democratization in the Muslim world 107 JAMES KURTH PART 20 North Africa The United States and the North African imbroglio: balancing interests in Algeria, Morocco, and the Western Sahara 129 YAHIA H. ZOUBIR AND KARIMA BENABDALLAH-GAMBIER 71 Managing Morocco's image in United States domestic politics 154 JACK KALPAKIAN 72 The United States' approach to Algeria's civil conflict: implications for democratization, internal peace and anti-american violence 172 ABDELAZIZ TESTAS 73 Algeria and U.S. interests: containing radical Islamism and promoting democracy 205 YAHIA H. ZOUBIR PART 21 The Persian Gulf The evolution of U.S.-Russian rivalry and cooperation in the Persian Gulf 227 STEVE A. YETIV 75 US-Saudi relations: evolution, current conditions, and future prospects 242 DAVID E. LONG 76 Saudi Arabia and the United States, JOSH POLLACK 77 Be careful what you wish for: the future of U.S.-Saudi relations 286 F. GREGORY GAUSE III XU1

11 PART 22 September 11 and the War on Terrorism US counterterrorism before bin Laden 307 TIMOTHY NAFTALI 79 American war powers and terrorists: the case of Usama Bin Laden 316 RYAN C. HENDRICKSON Index 333 XIV

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