Ethnic conflict and international politics in the Middle East / edited byLeonard Binder.

Papers presented at the Workshop on Ethnic and Religious Conflict in theMiddle East, held in 1996, and sponsored by UCLA.

pt. 1. Arab nationalism: cooperation, conflict, and domination. Power, legitimacy, and peace-making in Arab coalitions: the new Arabism / Shibley Telhami ; The assembled state: communal conflicts and governmental control in Iraq / Adeed Dawisha ; Syria: creating a national community / Moshe Ma'oz ; From consociationalism to the public sphere: recent evidence from Lebanon / Michael C. Hudson ; Religious and ethnic conflict in Sudan: can national unity survive? / Gabriel Warburg -- part 2. Iran, Islam, and the Persian Gulf. Iran's revolutionary politics: nationalism and Islamic identity / David Menashri ; Subordinate communities and the utility of ethnic ties to a neighboring regime: Iran and the Shi{u2591}a of the Arab states of the Gulf / Michael Herb ; Toward a social analysis of Islamist movements / Gilles Kepel -- part 3. Turkey, the Kurds, and Central Asia. Ethnic and religious strains in Turkey: internal and external implications / Ian O.Lesser ; Turkey's restive Kurds: the challenge of multiethnicity / Grah