Visions and Mirages

This work is intended as an easily read guide to both the problems and prospects confronting the Middle East. It tackles many of the questions confronting the region, such as: what kind of peace the Israeli-PLO agreements may yield?; and what comes after the oil boom and the revenue crash?

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This is intended as an easily read guide to both the problems and prospects confronting the Middle East. The book tackles many of the questions confronting the region, such as: what kind of peace the Israeli-PLO agreements may yield?; is the Arab world inevitably headed for an Islamic fundamentalist takeover or are there real forces working to bring western-style democracy to the region?; is Saudi Arabia broke - and if not, just how serious are its financial problems?; and what comes after the oil boom and the revenue crash?