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Winter 2011, Volume XVIII, Number 4
Editor's Note
- Editorial (Winter 2011)
Essays
- A Reawakened Rivalry: The GCC v. Iran
- The GCC's "Demographic Imbalance": Perceptions, Realities and Policy Options
- The United Arab Emirates at 40: A Balance Sheet
- Palestine, the UN and the One-State Solution
- Israel's Palestinian Minority in the Two-State Solution: The Missing Dimension
- Israel’s 1979 Nuclear Test and the U.S. Cover-Up
- The Mess in the Middle East
- The Egyptian Military, Part Two: From Mubarak Onward
- The Troubles in Syria: Spawned by French Divide and Rule
- Families, Tribes and Cities in the Libyan Revolution
- The Caucasus Emirate: Genealogy of an Islamist Insurgency
Book Reviews
- Popular Resistance in Palestine / Refusing to be Enemies
- The Politics of Change in Palestine: State Building and Non-Violent Resistance
- The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
- Armenian History and the Question of Genocide
- Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989
Fall 2011, Volume XVIII, Number 3
Editor's Note
- Editorial (Fall 2011)
Essays
- Arab and Israeli Peace Initiatives: A Last Chance for Negotiations?
- Israel's Energy Security: Regional Implications
- Egypt's Spring: Causes of the Revolution
- The Arab Spring: U.S. Democracy Promotion in Egypt
- The Egyptian Military, Part One: From the Ottomans through Sadat
- Yemen: A Social Intifada in a Republic of Sheikhs
- The Turkish Example: A Model for Change In the Middle East?
- Not Your Parents' Political Party: Young Sunnis and the New Iraqi Democracy
- Drone Warfare: Blowback from the New American Way of War
- Sudan's Islamists and the Post-Oil Era: Washington's Role after Southern Secession
- U.S. Economic Sanctions against Iran: Undermined by External Factors
- Jefferson's Dialogue with the Contemporary World: Education and Diplomacy
Book Reviews
- Pakistan: A Hard Country
- Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Military Historian Returns to Afghanistan
- Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
- Prison Writings: The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century
- Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution
Summer 2011, Volume XVIII, Number 2
Editor's Note
- Editorial
Essays
- The Arab Uprisings and U.S. Policy: What Is the American National Interest?
- The Arab Reawakening: Strategic Implications
- Egypt at a Crossroads
- The Political Economy of Syria: Realities and Challenges
- The State of Palestine Exists
- The Israeli Military: Imprisoned by the Religious Community
- Privatization of Gulf Industrial Institutions: The Secret of Success
- Economic Opportunities in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Beyond the Democratic Wave: A Turko-Persian Future?
- The Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
- The Gulf States and Iran: A Turkish Perspective
- Protecting Jihad: The Sharia Council of the Minbar al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad
Book Reviews
- A Wall in Palestine
- The Shah
- Saving Iraq: Rebuilding a Broken Nation
- The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
- Yemen on the Brink
