The Arab world today / edited by Dan Tschirgi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on the meaning and consequences of the Gulf Crisis / Roger Owen -- Scholarship and the diplomatic context of the Arab world after the Gulf War / L. Carl Brown -- The Gulf Crisis, the Arab world, and intellectual models / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- The need for an alternative construction of knowledge / Cynthia Nelson -- Oil wealth in the Arab world : whence, to whom, and whither? / Alan Richards -- Arab elites and societies after the Gulf Crisis / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Arab labor migration and the Gulf Crisis / Nader Fergany -- The political economy of Jordan : democratization and the Gulf Crisis / Riad al Khouri -- The Gulf War : a defining event? / Adeed Dawisha -- Redefining the Arab and Arabism in the aftermath of the Gulf Crisis / Bassam Tibi -- The future of regional and subregional organization in the Arab World / Ibrahim Awad -- National security in the Arab world : the persistence of dualism / Bahgat Korany -- The third wave of democratization in the Arab world / Mustapha K. El Sayyid -- A Palestinian view on the implications of the Gulf Crisis / Ahmad Sidki Al-Dajani.

(cont) Islamists and the Gulf Crisis / François Burgat -- Russia, the CIS and tha Arab world after the Gulf Crisis / Vitaly Naumkin -- The United States and the Arab world after the Gulf Crisis / Hosam T. El-Tawil -- The Gulf War and the political situation in the Middle East / Walid Kazziha --The Arab world and the rest of the world / Dan Tschirgi.