Riding The Tiger

Phebe Marr is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University and has spent thirty years as a scholar and analyst of the Middle East and Southwest Asia. She has taught at the University of Tennessee and California State University, Stanislau, chaired the Near East North Africa program at the Foreign Service Institute, and worked as a research analyst for the Arabian American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia. She has published widely on the Persian Gulf and is the author of The Modern History of Iraq (1985). William Lewis is the Director of Security Policy Studies and a Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. He has written widely on European and Middle Eastern security affairs, particularly on arms transfers and weapons proliferation in the Third World. He is a specialist on North Africa, with emphasis on Libya, and has served in the State Department in various posts dealing with security and defense policy.

Preface -- Introduction -- Moscow and the Middle East in the 1990s -- Oil in the 1990s: The Gulf Dominant -- The Military Balance: Change or Stasis? -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the 1990s: Prospects for a Settlement -- The Persian Gulf After the Storm -- Hazards to Middle East Stability in the 1990s: Economics, Population, and Water -- Beyond Geopolitics: Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict Elimination in the Middle East and North Africa -- Islamic Movements, Democratization, and U.S. Foreign Policy -- Strategies for an Era of Uncertainty: The U.S. Policy Agenda