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Table of Contents:

• Thoughts on a war: ignorant armies clash by night / Edward W. Said
• Portent of a new century / Eqbal Ahmad
• Iraq: years of turbulence / Michel Moushabeck
• From regionalism to nation-state: a short history of Kuwait / Hala Fattah
• The crisis in the Gulf: why Iraq invaded Kuwait / Bishara A. Bahbah
• the battle is joined / Steve Niva
• After the cold war: U.S. middle east policy / Noam Chomsky
• The Panama paradigm / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Countdown for a decade: the U.S. build-up for war in the Gulf / Sheila Ryan
• U.S. aid to Israel: funding occupation in the aftermath of the Gulf War / Jeanne Butterfield
• False consensus: George Bush's United Nations / Phyllis Bennis
• The warrior culture / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Peacetime militarism: an epidemic disorder / Jack O'Dell
• The storm at home: the U.S. anti-war movement / Max Elbaum
• Restricting reality: media mind-games and the war / Laura Flanders
• The Arab world in the "new world order" / Clovis Maksoud
• The Kurds: an old crisis at a new moment / Clovis Maksoud.
• The politics of linkage: the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Gulf War / Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
• The other occupation: the Palestinian response / Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi
• The Gulf Crisis and the economy in the occupied territories / Samir Hulaileh

• From the sealed room: Israel's peace movement during the Gulf War / Stanley Cohen
• Israel and the Gulf War: a view from the Israeli peace movement / Mordechai Bar-On
• Jordan responds to the Gulf Crisis / Mustafa B. Hamarneh
• What choice did Egypt have? / Sherif Hetata
• Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: the Islamist perspective / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
• Oil and the Gulf Crisis / Michael Tanzer
• Bushbacking: Britain goes to war / Paul Rogers
• Lost illusions: Europe's peace movement / Daniel Cirera
• South Asia in the wake of the Gulf War: the Pakistan example / Talat Rahman, Lyman Baker
• Human rights and the Gulf Crisis: the verbal strategy of George Bush / Naseer Aruri
• For generations to come: the environmental catastrophe / Penny Kemp
• Desert sin: a post-war journey through Iraq / Louise Cainkar.

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Contributors:

Bennis, Phyllis, 1951-

Moushabeck, Michel

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991

Persian Gulf War, 1991 — Influence

Persian Gulf Region — Strategic aspects

Middle East — Politics and government — 1979-

Iraq-Kuwait Crisis (1990-1991)

Persian Gulf War (1991)

Since 1979

Strategic aspects of individual places

Politics and government

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Persian Gulf Region

Middle East

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-407) and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 412 pages : map ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

DS79.72 .B49 1991

ISBNs:

0940793873
0940793822 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

91022095

OCLC Numbers:

24010439