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A review essay on a book by Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (New York: Oxford U Press). Lewis asks what went wrong with Islam & finds centuries of victimhood; Gilles Kepel considers Islamism a utopian project whose moment has passed. Together, their books depict the passionate debate over politics in the Muslim world. Adapted from the source document.

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach by L. Carl Brown is reviewed.

International law does not exist in a vacuum; its development is closely connected with contemporary conditions. The most complex and difficult political-legal problem today is tile drafting of a generally agreed-upon law of the sea convention. The sophistication and Western orientation of the Saudi position on the law of the sea, as well as Saudi Arabia's oil reserves and the wealth and power they confer, make it a worthy subject for examination.