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The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Globalization

Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

Abstract

This book has become a standard textbook in Middle East studies curricula all over the world. This third edition, with new material reflecting the earth-shaking events at the end of the Cold War and the continuation of violence and terrorism, examines foreign policies of nine Arab states in the context of globalization. The chapters first establish an analytical framework for assessing foreign policy, which are applied chapter by chapter to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Iraq.

Keywords: Third World, foreign policies, Middle East, Cold War, violence, terrorism, Arab states, globalization

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9789774163609
Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2011 DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774163609.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Bahgat Korany, author

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki, author

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

1 Foreign Policy Analysis in the Global Era and the World of the Arabs

Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

2 Foreign Policy Approaches and Arab Countries: A Critical Evaluation and an Alternative Framework

Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

3 Globalization and Arab Foreign Policies: Constraints or Marginalization?

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Bahgat Korany

4 From Arab System to Middle Eastern System?: Regional Pressures and Constraints

Paul Noble1

5 Regional Leadership: Balancing off Costs and Dividends in the Foreign Policy of Egypt

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

6 Foreign Policy Under Occupation: Does Iraq need a Foreign Policy?

Mohamed Soffar

7 Foreign Policy as a Strategic National Asset: The Case of Jordan

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Karen Abul Kheir

8 The Art of the Impossible: The Foreign Policy of Lebanon

Bassel F. Salloukh

9 The Far West of the Near East: The Foreign Policy of Morocco

Jennifer Rosenblum and William Zartman

10 Irreconcilable Role-Partners? Saudi Foreign Policy Between the Ulama and the US1

Bahgat Korany and Moataz A. Fattah

11 From Fragmentation to Fragmentation?: Sudan's Foreign Policy

Ann M. Lesch

12 The Challenge of Restructuring: Syrian Foreign Policy

Hazem Kandil

13 Politics of Constructive Engagement: The Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates

Abdul-Monem al-Mashat

14 Conclusion: Foreign Policy, Globalization, and the Arab Dilemma of Change

Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

End Matter

About the Contributors

Index