Middle East
Which Path to Persia? presents four possible approaches for U.S. policy toward Iran: a diplomatic solution, a military response, regime change, and containment. Diplomacy breaks down into two options, persuasion or engagement.
The UN Development Program
These three readings offer an in-depth study of the 22 countries and 350 million people that make up the Arab world. All implicitly pose the interlinked questions of why the Arab world has not achieved as much progress as comparable areas of the world and what needs to be done if it is to "wake from its sleep."
An associate editor at the Financial Times and, from 1995 to 1999, its Middle East editor, Gardner has penned a passionate account of the Middle Eastern despots that U.S. (plus, to some extent, British) actions and inactions have sustained.
Dawisha's political history covers the nine decades with equal attention and offers a severe but fair appraisal of all of Iraq's rulers and regimes.
What emerges from this book is a portrait of a distinctively Saudi political culture coping with the challenge of finding a way to change in a distinctively Saudi manner.
