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The Middle East and the Peace Process The Impact of the Oslo Accords Edited by Robert O. Freedman The Middle East and the Peace Process The Middle East and the Peace Process The Impact of the Oslo Accords Edited by Robert O. Freedman University Press of Florida Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville Copyright 1998 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved 03 02 01 00 99 98 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Middle East and the peace process: the impact of the Oslo Accords / edited by Robert O. Freedman. Papers presented at a conference held on November 5,1995, at Baltimore Hebrew University. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8130-1554-5 (alk. paper) 1. Geopolitics—Middle East—Congresses. 2. Middle East—Politics and government—1979—Congresses. I. Freedman, Robert Owen. DS63.1.M4847 1998 97-20336 956.05—dc21 The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprised of Florida A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida. University Press of Florida 15 Northwest 15th Street Gainesville, FL 32611 To Harold Baron, loving husband, father, and grandfather and dedicated friend of Baltimore Hebrew University Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Arab-Israeli Core Area 1. Domestic Determinants of Israeli Foreign Policy: The Peace Process from the Declaration of Principles to the Oslo II Interim Agreement 11 Myron J. Aronoff and Yael S. Aronoff 2. Netanyahu and Peace: From Sound Bites to Sound Policies? 35 Mark Rosenblum 3. Palestinian and Other Arab Perspectives on the Peace Process 81 Muhammad Muslih 4. The Transformation of Jordan, 1991-1995 101 Adam Garfinkle 5. Syria and the Transition to Peace 134 Raymond A. Hinnebusch 6. Egypt at the Crossroads: Domestic, Economic, and Political Stagnation and Foreign Policy Constraints 154 Louis J. Cantori Part II. Turkey and the Gulf States 7. Turkey and the Middle East after Oslo I 169 George E. Gruen 8. Iraq after the Gulf War: The Fallen Idol 213 Phebe Marr 9. Iran since the Gulf War 241 Shaul Bakhash 10. The Arabian Peninsula 265 F. Gregory Gause III Part III. North Africa 11. North Africa in the Nineties: Moving toward Stability? 293 Mary-Jane Deeb 12. The Sudan: Militancy and Isolation 316 Ann Mosely Lesch Part IV. The Role of External Powers 13. U.S. Middle East Policy in the 1990s 347 Don Peretz 14. Russia and the Middle East under Yeltsin 365 Robert O. Freedman Bibliography 413 Contributors 421 Index 425 Publication of the Center for the Study of Israel and the Contemporary Middle East, Baltimore Hebrew University
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