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Examines divisions among foreign policy organizations, lack of military capability, and relations with Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Israel.

It is not easy to present a summary of Middle East studies in France. Traditionally located in several important institutions—Collège de France, School of Applied Higher Studies (EPHE), National School of Oriental Languages—they have burst out of these walls over the past two decades. Many courses on the Middle East are now given in the Universities of Paris and the provinces. The new organization of higher education created after the crisis of May 1968 was guided by a spirit of university autonomy and thus makes any general summary even more difficult. Several universities have often been created in the same city and specialists have been split up among them rather than remaining together.

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.