The Contemporary Middle East · A Westview Reader by Yambert, Karl -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Editorial Matters Summary of Recent Events, 2011–2012 I. History and Perspectives

1. The Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East 2. The Roots of Arab Bitterness 3. Islamist Perceptions of US Policy in the Middle East 4. Global Energy and the Middle East 5. New US Policies for a New Middle East? 6. Cairo Speech

II. Israel and The Palestinians

7. Israel and the Arabs, and Beyond 8. The United States and Israel 9. The Palestinians 10. Sharon’s Fence 11. Whither the Palestinians? 12. Ethnicity and Nation-Building in the State of Israel 13. Syria’s Threat to Israel 14. The Iranian Nuclear Threat Against Israel

III. Iraq and Iran

15. Pashtunistan: Afghanistan, Pakistan—and Iraq 16. The Land and People of Modern Iraq 17. Impacts of the Iraq War 18. America’s Troubled Moment in the Middle East 19. Maliki Consolidates Power in Post-Saddam Iraq 20. The Iranian Revolution and Its Consequences 21. Islamic Republic of Iran: Political Dynamics and Foreign Policy 22. Iran’s Regional Foreign Policy 23. Iran, Israel, and the United States 24. The Iranian Predicament

IV. The Islamists

V. The Arab Spring

27. The Arab Spring, 2011 28. Egypt: Mubarak and After 29. Bashar al-Asad, Syria, and the Arab Spring 30. The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and the Transnational

VI. Looking Forward

Select Bibliography Glossary Notable Persons Chronology Since World War I Index