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Inside the Arab World
Author: Michael Field
Precious oil and export markets, wars in Lebanon and the Persian Gulf, peace talks at the White House, terrorist eruptions: more now than ever, Arab affairs are the West's affair. And yet as we find ourselves increasingly enmeshed in its politics and economics, the Middle East remains a mystery to most of us, a world of dimly understood connections and impenetrable complexities. The Arab world at last becomes accessible in this book. The only study to include developments since the Gulf War and the historic pact between Israel and the PLO, Inside the Arab World gives us a complete and detailed picture of the region as it is today, as well as a clear sense of how Arab affairs have evolved and where they may lead.
Despite its abundance of oil, the Arab world has failed to produce a single successful economy. Michael Field, a recognized expert and longtime reporter on the Arab states, ably explores the cultural, political, and geographic reasons for this failure. Ranging from Algeria to the Gulf states to Egypt and Syria, he considers the fragmentation of society, the people's tolerance of bad government, corruption, and the deadening economic effect of Arab socialism. But he also shows how the region—influenced partly by exposure to Western media, partly by reforms imposed by creditors—is changing now, taking its first cautious steps toward democracy, whose opportunities so far have been most firmly grasped by Islamic fundamentalists.
Timely, thorough, and highly readable, this book offers much-needed insight into the Arab world as its politics and policies increasingly engage our own.
Library Journal
This is an important addition to the growing number of comprehensive surveys of the Arab world, written by Westerners who know the area well. Field is a journalist, most recently with the Financial Times; over the past 27 years, he has spent a great deal of time in the Middle East and has made hundreds of contacts. What makes his book unique, and especially valuable to researchers, is its focus on failure and reform in the various Arab states-an emphasis that requires economic and political analysis on top of the historical, social, and cultural narratives that often comprise the entirety of most other comprehensive works. For example, Field sees the Islamic fundamentalist movement as the result of economic failure and/or the need for political reform rather than as a strictly religious or cultural phenomenom. Field also covers the Gulf War and the Arab-Israeli peace process, making this book as timely as it is well written, fast-paced and nonjudgmental. While expressing the viewpoint of an objective Western observer, Field also manages to convey the various viewpoints of the Arabs observing the Westerner observing them-a much greater achievement. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.-Ruth K. Baacke, Whatcom Cty. Lib. Sys., Bellingham, Wash.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Pt. I | Failure | 1 |
| 1 | The Arab World | 3 |
| 2 | Deception and Division: 1914-48 | 25 |
| 3 | Hope and Disaster: 1948-70 | 50 |
| 4 | Despair: 1970-93 | 67 |
| 5 | The Corruption of the State | 91 |
| 6 | Economic Stagnation | 112 |
| 7 | The Collapse of Algeria | 126 |
| 8 | The Search for a Reason | 148 |
| Pt. II | Reform | 171 |
| 9 | The Demand for Legitimate Government | 173 |
| 10 | The IMF's Medicine | 195 |
| 11 | Structural Reform | 208 |
| 12 | Political Islam | 228 |
| 13 | Islamic Government | 251 |
| 14 | Steps Towards Democracy | 272 |
| 15 | Society and Democracy | 312 |
| 16 | The Problems of Saudi Arabia | 322 |
| 17 | Pressures for Peace | 345 |
| 18 | Peace | 371 |
| 19 | A Pragmatic Arab World | 390 |
| 20 | The West and the Arabs | 406 |
| Index | 425 |
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