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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Editorial Matters | |
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| Summary of Recent Events, 2011-2012 | |
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| History and Perspectives | |
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| The Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East | |
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| The Roots of Arab Bitterness | |
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| Islamist Perceptions of US Policy in the Middle East | |
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| Global Energy and the Middle East | |
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| New US Policies for a New Middle East? | |
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| Cairo Speech | |
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| Israel and the Palestinians | |
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| Israel and the Arabs, and Beyond | |
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| The United States and Israel | |
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| The Palestinians | |
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| Sharon's Fence | |
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| Whither the Palestinians? | |
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| Ethnicity and Nation-Building in the State of Israel | |
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| Syria's Threat to Israel | |
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| The Iranian Nuclear Threat Against Israel | |
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| Iraq and Iran | |
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| Pashtunistan: Afghanistan, Pakistan-and Iraq | |
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| The Land and People of Modern Iraq | |
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| Impacts of the Iraq War | |
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| Americas Troubled Moment in the Middle East | |
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| Maliki Consolidates Power in Post-Saddam Iraq | |
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| The Iranian Revolution and Its Consequences | |
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| Islamic Republic of Iran: Political Dynamics and Foreign Policy | |
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| Iran's Regional Foreign Policy | |
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| Iran, Israel, and the United States | |
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| The Iranian Predicament | |
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| The Islamists | |
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| Islamists and Democracy: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood | |
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| Talking to Terrorists: Hamas and Hezbollah | |
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| The Arab Spring | |
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| The Arab Spring, 2011 | |
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| Egypt: Mubarak and After | |
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| Bashar al-Asad, Syria, and the Arab Spring | |
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| The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and the Transnational | |
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| Looking Forward | |
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| The Contemporary Middle East: Some Questions, Some Answers | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notable Persons | |
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| Chronology Since World War I | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Middle East languages | |
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| Middle East religions | |
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| Present extent of Islam | |
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| The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916 | |
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| The Middle Eastern mandates, 1924 | |
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| Israel | |
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| Palestine | |
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| United Nations plan for partitioning Palestine, 1947 | |
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| Iraq | |
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| Iran | |
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| Ethnoreligious groups in Iraq | |