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Some focus on relationships with Central Asia; 8 articles. Contents: US and the question of democracy in the Middle East; Armenia and Azerbaijan: looking toward the Middle East; Iran's foreign policy: between enmity and conciliation; A Kurdish state in Iraq; Incremental change in Syria; Labor's return to power in Israel; The Palestinians since the Gulf war; Algeria: the clash between Islam, democracy and the military.

International mediation, and roles of the US, UN, European Union, and moderate Arab states; 3 articles. Contents: Mediation in the Middle East, by Josef Joffe; The reluctant mediator, by Rachel Bronson; The unique role of moderate Arab states, by Ahmed Abdel Halim.

Pt.1: Overview: Military expenditures and arms transfers, major arms by country and zone, and qualitative trends. - December 26, 1998. - 26 S.; Pt.2: North Africa: Overview.; Pt.3: North Africa: Country analysis.; Pt.4: Arab-Israeli balance: Overview of military spending and arms transfers.; Pt.5: Arab-Israeli balance: Regional force comparisons.; Pt.6: Arab-Israeli balance: Comparisons by country and subregion.; Pt.7: The Gulf: Overview.; Pt.8: The Gulf: Regional comparisons of total forces, manpower, and land, air, air defense and naval forces.; Pt.9: The northern Gulf: Iran.; Pt.10: The northern Gulf: Iraq.; Pt.11: The southern Gulf: Bahrain and Kuwait.; Pt.12: The southern Gulf: Oman and Qatar.; Pt.13: The southern Gulf: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Yemen.; Pt.14: Weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. - December 28, 1998. - 100 S

It has been for some time now a truism of sorts that the Middle East is a wider locale than the arid landscapes traditionally identified by the moniker. The notional geographies that scholars have worked with for decades are no longer so set and bound. A number of high-profile thinkers have helped put into motion this paradigm shift, asking how and in which ways histories of the Middle East might be nudged in different directions. Tagliacozzo's article travels in these same furrows, arguing that Southeast Asia—a place seldom envisioned as part of the Middle East—is also a part of the latter's story. Although no one is arguing that the monsoon coasts of Southeast Asia are per se part of the Middle East, they are a component part of the history of this region of the world. Tagliacozzo shows how this embrace across the Indian Ocean came about, primarily though the lenses of commerce and religion, through trade and Islam. He examines this evolution, as human beings and the products they carried started to connect these two places across the breadth of the Indian Ocean world. He also looks at how imperial energies unleashed in a later time period (primarily the nineteenth century) brought these two world arenas closer to one another in certain identifiable manners. Finally, Tagliacozzo reflects on what adding Southeast Asia into the story of Islam and the Middle East ultimately means, and what we as an intellectual community might gain from this project.

The Purpose of this Paper is to present the history and the present status of Middle Eastern and North African Studies in Japan. As the status of the studies is closely related to the status of the relationships between Japan and the regions concerned, I will first write about the history of Japan-Middle East (including North Africa) relations and the relationship thereof to the studies.

Sonderheft über den Aufbau von Telekommunikationseinrichtungen im Mittleren Osten in den 70er und 80er Jahren mit Zahlen über das Auftragsvolumen einzelner Länder in den Jahren 1979 bis 1982; Marktpotential für einzelne Telekommunikationsausrüstungen und die Aktivitäten einzelner ausländischer Firmen; Projekte in einzelnen Ländern. (DÜI-Sdt)