The Foreign Policies of Arab States

Bahgat Korany

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A new paperback edition of this primary Middle East Studies textbook
The first edition of this book was praised as "a milestone for present and future research on Arab and Third World foreign policies" (American Political Science Review), and "an indispensable aid for those studying or teaching the foreign policies of the contemporary Middle East" (International Journal of Middle East Studies). It has become a standard textbook in Middle East studies curricula all over the world. This third edition, now in paperback, with new material reflecting the earth-shaking events at the end of the Cold War and the continuation of violence and terrorism, examines foreign policies of nine Arab states in the context of globalization. The editors first establish an analytical framework for assessing foreign policy, which they and other contributors then apply chapter by chapter to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Iraq.
Contributors: Moataz A. Fattah, Karen Abul Kheir, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki, Hazem Kandil, Bahgat Korany, Ann M. Lesch, Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat, Paul Noble, Jennifer Rosenblum, Bassel F. Salloukh, Mohamed Soffar. William Zartman.
Foreign Policy Analysis in the Global Era and the World of the Arabs
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Foreign Policy Approaches and Arab Countries: A Critical Evaluation and an Alternative Framework
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Globalization and Arab Foreign Policies: Constraints or Marginalization?
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Bahgat Korany
From Arab System to Middle Eastern System: Regional Pressures and Constraints
Paul Noble
Regional leadership: Balancing off Costs and Dividends: Foreign Policy of Egypt
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Foreign Policy under Occupation: Does Iraq Need a Foreign Policy?
Mohamed Soffar
Does the Successor Make a Difference? The Foreign Policy of Jordan
Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Karen Abul Kheir
The Art of the Impossible: The Foreign Policy of Lebanon
Bassel F. Salloukh
The Far West of the Near East: The Foreign Policy of Morocco
Jennifer Rosenblum and William Zartman
Irreconcilable Role-Partners? Saudi Foreign Policy between the Ulama and the U.S.
Bahgat Korany and Moataz A. Fattah
From Fragmentation to Fragmentation? Sudan's Foreign Policy
Ann M. Lesch
The Challenge of Restructuring: Syrian Foreign Policy
Hazem Kandil
Politics of Constructive Engagement: The Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates
Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat
Conclusion: Foreign Policy, Globalization and the Arab Dilemma of Change
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

Sujets

• Islam
• History
• Egypt
• Histoire
• Middle Est

Informations

• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781617973871
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Globalization / Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki. - Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction:Foreign Policies of Arab States
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
1.  Foreign Policy Analysis in the Global Era and the World of the Arabs Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
2.  Foreign Policy Approaches and Arab Countries: A Critical Evaluation and an Alternative Framework Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
3.  Globalization and Arab Foreign Policies: Constraints or Marginalization? Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Bahgat Korany
4.  From Arab System to Middle Eastern System?: Regional Pressures and Constraints Paul Noble
5.  Regional Leadership: Balancing off Costs and Dividends in the Foreign Policy of Egypt Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
6.  Foreign Policy under Occupation: Does Iraq Need a Foreign Policy? Mohamed Soffar
7.  Foreign Policy as a Strategic National Asset: The Case of Jordan Ali E. Hillal Dessouki and Karen Abul Kheir
8.  The Art of the Impossible: The Foreign Policy of Lebanon Bassel F. Salloukh
9.  The Far West of the Near East: The Foreign Policy of Morocco Jennifer Rosenblum and William Zartman
10. Irreconcilable Role-Partners?: Saudi Foreign Policy between the Ulama and the US Bahgat Korany and Moataz A. Fattah
11. From Fragmentation to Fragmentation?: Sudan's Foreign Policy Ann M. Lesch
12. The Challenge of Restructuring: Syrian Foreign Policy Hazem Kandil
13. Politics of Constructive Engagement: The Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates Abdul-Monem al-Mashat
14. Conclusion: Foreign Policy, Globalization and the Arab Dilemma of Change Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
The second edition of this work was published in 1991, and was out of date by 1995. We hesitated to update it further, believing that the globalization, post-cold war, and post-9/11 contexts necessitated more than a straightforward update. This newly revised third edition is essentially a new book, but its objectives remain unchanged:
To offer, in a manageable size, field data and analysis of the foreign policies of as many pivotal Arab countries as possible.
To establish a bridge, using empirical analysis, between Middle East Area Studies with its rootedness in the region and foreign policy theories with their rich store of concepts and methodologies.
When we thought of this project more than twenty-six years ago and then published it in 1984, we were not at all sure of the results. Published reviews by prominent experts of the region were supportive and encouraging. Many foreign policy theorists, who usually do not read Area Studies texts, seemed informed by our analysis, as references by B. Badie, M. Brecher, C. Hill, K. Holsti, C. Kegley, M. Herman, and J. Rosenau among others. The positive impact of the project suggested that Middle East specialists could go from being mere consumers of theory to being contributors to it.
This success could not have been achieved without our coauthors. The project was from the start an intercultural endeavor, with contributions by scholars from the region and those from the outside who interacted extensively with it. Over the years, it became intergenerational as well.
Our first thanks go naturally to our coauthors, without whose help this project would not have materialized in its present form.
The American University in Cairo (AUC) has been very supportive of this project. We wish to thank everyone who participated in the project s AUC-sponsored workshop of June 2006. Special thanks go to Halah Mohsen, then the provost s assistant for special projects, who helped organize it.
This is the first publication of the AUC Forum for International Affairs, the establishment of which was suggested by AUC President David Arnold and which is already carrying out an important function in promoting AUC s international visibility. Both of us would like to extend our warmest thanks to Professor Tim Sullivan, a fellow political scientist, and provost of AUC, for his continued support and interest, which have gone far beyond the call of his formal duties.
Shaima Ragab, the efficient assistant to the director of the AUC Forum, joined the project more than halfway through but steered it skillfully to its end as though she had been there right from the start. Ali E. Hillal Dessouki would like to thank his research assistant Youssef Wardany. Financially, we preferred this book to be a lonely venture. We did not receive nor did we apply for any outside financial support.
Our thanks go also to the American University in Cairo Press for their enthusiasm all along for this project, specifically to Mark Linz, Randi Danforth, Abdalla Hassan, and Sumita Pahwa. Last but not least, we would like to reiterate our thanks to our respective spouses, Margaret Korany and Eglal Dessouki, for their unwavering support and understanding since this project s inception. During times of pressure, they made up for our absence from our children, and now our grandchildren.
This edition is the culmination of our long-standing friendship, one unaffected by differences in institutional affiliation, or academic or political attachment. We have enjoyed working together immensely.
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Introduction Foreign Policies of Arab States
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Arab states have been studied from many angles. We have books on Arab governments and politics, history and political developments, ideologies and intellectual trends, inter-Arab relations and the great power s policies in the region. But although excellent studies have been carried out in recent years by established as well as younger scholars, we still have relatively little field work on Arab state s foreign policies, how these countries view the world and their role in it.
When the first edition of this book was published in 1984, our survey of the literature on Arab foreign policies in eight languages indicated the paucity of academic publishing in this area. 1 At that time, and with a few exceptions, the literature suffered from a number of limitations it was of a descriptive or prescriptive genre, rarely linked to rigorous conceptualization in foreign policy analysis; most of it belonged to the tradition of diplomatic history or commentary on current affairs; and finally, other than statements about the role of leaders and personalities, there was almost no treatment of how foreign policy is actually made and implemented.
We suggested four reasons for this noticeable poverty in the established literature. First was the underdeveloped state of the subdiscipline of foreign policy analysis with reference to the global south, the former third world . During the 1950s and 1960s, attempts at foreign policy theory-building basically viewed developing and newly independent states as having no purposeful foreign policies of their own. Their external behavior was analyzed as a reaction to the great power s policies toward them, and hence emphasis was placed on the general international relations of a country or region rather than its foreign policy proper. Approaches to analyzing foreign policy at that time drew primarily on the experiences of developed countries and revealed an applicability problem in dealing with developing ones. A second factor was the limited availability of data in rapidly changing environments, in which foreign policy affairs were shrouded in secrecy and widely perceived as matters of utmost national security, adding to the serious archival problems of newly independent states. Third, students of Arab politics tended to focus their attention on regional political dynamics, marginalizing the analysis of single-actor behavior and its linkage to the established body of theory. There was no lack of analyses dealing, for instance, with inter-Arab relations or the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Map of the Middle East
Fourth, we underlined the methodological weakness and lack of analytical rigor of the literature on the Arab countries, while noting that this literature had not contributed to the body of social science theory-building as had, for instance, the literature on Latin America. To the contrary, the field was still plagued by inadequate