List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction / James A. Russell -- [pt. 1]. Political economy -- 2. Long-term sources of instability in the Middle East / Alan Richards -- 3. Reforming the rentier state : the imperatives for change in the Gulf / Robert Looney -- [pt. 2]. Emerging political dynamics -- 4. Oslo's success, a militarized resistance : changing opposition tactics in the Palestinian territories / Anne Marie Baylouny -- 5. Islamization and American policy / Barak A. Salmoni -- 6. Democratic nation building in the arc of crisis : the case of the Presidential election in Afghanistan / Thomas H. Johnson -- [pt. 3]. Regional security and stability -- 7. The Arab-Israeli conflict and regional stability / Ellen Laipson and Emile Hokayem -- 8. Iraq and the new regional security dynamic / Judith S. Yaphe -- [pt. 4]. Strategy and policy -- 9. Strategy, policy, and war in Iraq : the United States and the Gulf in the twenty-first century / James A. Russell -- Index.
