The Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration
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From the unification of North and South Yemen, to the struggle for Mahgreb unity, and the experiences of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, this book presents a complex portrait of the history and prospects for Arab integration. Clovis Maksoud An insightful and comprehensive analysis of a region that continues to be conflict prone and challenged by factors both regional and global. . . . highlights long ignored issues, such as the dynamic forces of integration, and puts in context the historical and the current causes for the divisive reality that characterizes the region. Michael Hudson´s brilliant and sensitive introduction is matched by the substantive and scholarly analysis of his chosen contributors. Middle East Dilemma will definitely be required reading in my class.
List of Tables and FiguresList of ContributorsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Arab Integration: An Overview1IThe Changing Arab Regional System332The Arab World and the New Balance of Power in the New Middle East353The Prospects for Arab Cooperation in a Changing Regional and Global System604From Pan-Arabism to the Community of Sovereign Arab States: Redefining the Arab and Arabism in the Aftermath of the Second Gulf War92IIExperiments in Political Integration1075The Rise and Fall of the United Arab Republic1096The United Arab Emirates: A Quarter Century of Federation1287The Gulf Cooperation Council: Nature, Origin, and Process1508The Ups and Downs of Maghrib Unity1719The Republic of Yemen: The Politics of Unification and Civil War, 1989-1995187IIIEconomic Integration21510Inter-Arab Economic Relations During the Twentieth Century: World Market vs. Regional Market?21711Arab Economic Integration: The Poor Harvest of the 1980s23312Technology: A Disintegrative Factor in the Arab World25913Labor Migration and Economic Integration in the Middle East27914Prospects for Regional Economic Integration After Oslo299Index321
