2nd Edition
The Foreign Policies Of Arab States The Challenge Of Change
462 Pages
by
Routledge
462 Pages
by
Routledge
449 Pages
by
Routledge
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Middle East politics have been proverbial for their changeability. The 1970s ushered in petro-politics, for instance, but OPEC's international status declined markedly in the following decade. Similarly, the Arab world's ostracism of Egypt in the 1970s following its separate peace with Israel was turned around in the 1980s; the late 1980s also brought PLO acceptance of the State of Israel.... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Literature Survey and a Framework for Analysis -- The Global System and Arab Foreign Policies: The Primacy of Constraints -- The Arab System: Pressures, Constraints, and Opportunities -- From Revolution to Domestication: The Foreign Policy of Algeria -- The Primacy of Economics: The Foreign Policy of Egypt -- The Dialectics of Domestic Environment and Role Performance: The Foreign Policy of Iraq -- The Politics of Vulnerability and Survival: The Foreign Policy of Jordan -- Heroic Politics: The Foreign Policy of Libya -- The Survival of a Nonstate Actor: The Foreign Policy of the Palestine Liberation Organization -- Defending the Faith amid Change: The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia -- The Foreign Policy of a Fragmented Polity: The Case of Sudan -- Revisionist Dreams, Realist Strategies: The Foreign Policy of Syria -- Arab Foreign Policies in a Changing Environment
Biography
"Bahgat Korany is director of the Arab studies program and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal. Ali E. Hillal Dessouki is professor of political science at Cairo University and director of the Center for Political Research."
