The Arab world today / edited by Dan Tschirgi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Implications for Understanding the Arab World: Reflections on the Meaning and Consequences of the Gulf Crises, R. Owen; Change or Continuity?; Scholarship and the Diplomatic Context of the Arab World After the Gulf War, L.C. Brown; The Gulf Crisis, the Arab World, and Intellectual Models, N. Hopkins; The Need for an Alternative Construction of Knowledge, C. Nelson. Part 2 Economic and Social Implications: Oil Wealth in the Arab World - Whence, to Whom, and Wither?, A. Richards; Arab Elites and Societies After the Gulf Crisis, S. Ibrahim; Arab Labour Migration and the Gulf Crisis, N. Fergany; The Political Economy of Jordan - Democratisation and the Gulf Crisis, R. Al Khoury. Part 3 Political Implications in the Arab World: The Gulf War: A Defining Event?, A. Dawisha; Refining the Arab and Arabism in the Aftermath of the Gulf Crisis, B. Tibi; The Future of Regional and Subregional Organisation in the Arab World, I. Award; National Security in the Arab World - The Persistence of Dualism, B. Korany; The Third Wave of Democratization in the Arab World, M. el Sayyid; Implications of the Gulf Crisis - A Palestinian View, A. Al-Dajani; Islamists and the Gulf Crisis, F. Burgat. Part 4 Implications for Arab/Non-Arab Relations: Russia, the CIS, and the Arab World, V. Naumkin; The US and the Arab World, H. el-Tawil; The Gulf War and the Political Situation in the Middle East, W. Kazziha; The Arab World and the Rest of the World, D. Tschirgi.

These essays focus on the political, economic, social and theoretical implications of the Gulf War. The variety of key questions they address revolve essentially around two major issues: the meaning of the Gulf War for inter-Arab relations, and for future relations between Arabs and non-Arabs