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Intro -- CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IMPLICATIONS AND U.S. POLICIES -- CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IMPLICATIONS AND U.S. POLICIES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IMPLICATIONSFOR U.S. POLICY -- SUMMARY -- ENDURING U.S. GOALS AMID REGIONAL CHANGE -- SELECT ISSUES -- Egypt: A Future of Partnership and Peace? -- The Gulf States: Cooperation under Pressure -- Syria: Change or Chaos? -- Islamists: New Opportunities and Challenges -- Israel: Growing Security Concerns, Persistent Dilemmas -- Iran: Arab Uprisings Complicate Strategic Picture -- CONGRESS AND U.S. POLICY -- U.S. Responses to Date -- Possible Questions for Congress -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 EGYPT: BACKGROUND AND U.S. RELATIONS -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW -- DOMESTIC POLITICS -- Drafting a Permanent Constitution -- Allegations of an Islamist Takeover and Debate over Press Freedom -- Economy -- FOREIGN POLICY -- Egypt, Israel, Hamas, and the Sinai Peninsula -- U.S. POLICY -- U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt -- Military Aid -- Economic Aid -- U.S. Funding for Democracy Promotion in Egypt -- U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt Since February 2011 -- The Consolidated Appropriations Act, FY2012 -- Latest Foreign Aid Developments -- FY2013 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 IRAN: U.S. CONCERNS AND POLICY RESPONSES -- SUMMARY -- POLITICAL HISTORY -- REGIME STRUCTURE, STABILITY, AND OPPOSITION -- Unelected Governing Institutions: The Supreme Leader, His Powers, andOther Ruling Councils -- Council of Guardians and Expediency Council -- Elected Institutions: The Presidency, the Majles (Parliament), the Assemblyof Experts, and Recent Elections -- The Presidency -- The Majles -- The Assembly of Experts -- Recent Elections: First Ahmadinejad Election in 2005 -- Disputed Ahmadinejad 2009 Reelection: Protests Erupt and Second Term is Riven bySchisms

For political scientists studying the Middle East, the invitation to
discuss the possible relevance of their work to comparative politics
in general is a welcome and rare opportunity. There is, one senses,
a gap between the Middle East political science community and the
mainstream disciplinary generalists. To the extent that they even
care about being part of the field, some Middle East political
scientists feel ghettoized—their region and their work are ignored.
Some feel as well that mainstream comparative politics theorizing
has not offered much toward better understanding to Middle East
politics. Such concerns motivated the establishment of the
Conference Group on the Middle East, which organizes sessions in
conjunction with, yet separate from, the main program at the APSA
Annual Meeting. It is noteworthy that some of the most imaginative
recent work on Middle East politics draws from anthropology,
political economy, social history, and critical cultural and
literary theory. "The Middle East political science community" is
not populated exclusively by political scientists.

Two years after the Arab uprisings shook the regional landscape and political culture, there remained an acute sense of uncertainty and disorder throughout the region, with the intensification of the civil war in Syria, enduring Iran-centred tensions, political violence in Iraq and growing unrest in Egypt that led to the sudden removal of President Muhammad Morsi. Adapted from the source document.

Water security issues, especially a growing shortage of ground water resources; possible consequences for the region's political and economic stability; lecture.

Although the Middle East possesses natural assets in full measure, with an estimated two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves, and land in abundance, both irrigable arable land, and arid range land, it is deficient in the most strategic and valuable of all natural resources - water. Some dive forecasts have been made about the impending water shortage, and the consequences for the region's economic development and political stability. The author examines usage and shortage of water and the requirements of water security in the Middle East. (DÜI-Sen)

Explores challenges the region poses to arms control and disarmament and prospects for progress; includes discussions of the Arab-Israeli peace process, missile proliferation, and the United Nations and Iraq; 7 articles. Text in English and French. Parallel title: Le Moyen-Orient.