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Volume VI, June 1999, Number 4  
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Editor's Note

SHEIKH ZAYED AND THE UAE: A CENTURY IN THIRTY YEARS
Keynote Address Fahim Bin Sultan Al Qasimi
General Aspects and Determinants of Growth Fatima S. Al-Shamsi
The Economics of National Autonomy Mary Ann Tétreault
Golden Dhow in a Storm: The Financial and Banking System Alan Richards
U.S.-UAE Relations Robert L. Mallett
Diversity in Unity: Political Institutions and Civil Society Fatma Al-Sayegh
Socio-Political Origins of Emirati Leaders Joseph A. Kechichian
UAE Policy toward the Sub-Regional Powers Hassan H. Al-Alkim
UAE Policy toward Palestine Khalil E. Jahshan
Between Pax Britannica and Pax Americana F. Gregory Gause III
Past, Present and Future Leadership William A. Rugh

ENERGY ECONOMICS
Policy Implications of the Price of Oil   Robert R. Copaken / Nathaniel R. Kern / Jim Steenhagen / Geoffrey Kemp
The Impact of Lower Oil Prices on the Economies of Gulf States   John Page
Qadhafi's Libya: The Limits of Optimism   Frank Anderson

WEAPONRY, CONVENTIONAL AND OTHER
The New Balance of Gulf Arms   Anthony H. Cordesman
New-Era Threat: Iraq's Biological Weapons   Al J. Venter

DEMOCRACY, THEORY AND PRACTICE
Elections in Qatar: A Window of Democracy Opens in The Gulf   Louay Bahry
Electoral Politics in Iran   Geneive Abdo
The Religious-Secular Divide in Israeli Politics   Shmuel Sandler / Robert O. Freedman / Shibley Telhami
Politics and Culture: Toward an Arab Agenda for the 21st Century   Paul Salem

TURKISH DILEMMAS
Turkish-European Relations: At a New Crossroads?   Paul Kubicek
The Turkish-Syrian Crisis of October 1998: A Turkish View   Mahmut Bali Aykan

BOOK REVIEWS
Hart, Saudi Arabia and the United States, Birth of a Security Partnership
     reviewed by Hermann Frederick Eilts
Long, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
     reviewed by Brooks Wrampelmeier
Fandy, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent
     reviewed by Michael Sterner
Karpin and Friedman, Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin
     reviewed by Guilain Denoeux
Nyang, Islam in the United States of America
     reviewed by Abdoulaye Saine
Hoiris and Yurukel, Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus
     reviewed by Nabil S. Mikhail
Bengio and Ben-Dor, eds., Minorities and the State in the Arab World
     reviewed by Robert Brenton Betts
Kaufman, Arab National Communism in the Jewish State
     reviewed by Robert Brenton Betts

DOCUMENT
European Union Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process
 
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