Visions & mirages : Middle East in a new era

Includes bibliographical referecnes and index.

The Middle East in a new era; rich resources, poor development; bad fences make bad neighbours: border disputes and their resolution; arms race or arms control: defence and deterrence; the crucial role of water; the fundamentalist challenge; democracy I: the prospects for change; democracy II: legal democraciesand royal opposition; Israel and Palestine: the unbalanced equation; who's winner? prospects for Egypt, Syria and Kuwait; the death of dreams: economic failurein Iraq, Iran and Algeria; Saudi Arabia: financial crises and the Islamist challenge; Saudi Arabia: the succession issue and national unity; earth's reservoir:oil reserves and energy issues; a war for oil?; double standards all round: theUS and the Middle East; Western Europe and the Middle East; Japan and the Middle East; chocolate and lies: nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction; minorities: the ethnic and religious detritus; central Asia: the new Middle East?