The Next Arab decade : alternative futures / edited by Hisham Sharabi.

Contributor(s):

Sharabi, Hisham, 1927-2005 [editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : London, England : Westview Press ; Mansell Pub., 1988Description: xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0813374405 (alk. paper) :

Subject(s):

Arab countries -- Forecasting

DDC classification:

303.49174924 19 N

LOC classification:

DS39 .N49 1988

Contents:

Introduction : patriarchy and dependency and the future of Arab society / Hisham Sharabi -- The state, democracy, and human rights. Forecast for the future : state and society in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya in 1995 / Ibrahim Ibrahim -- State, society, and legitimacy : an essay on Arab political prospects in the 1990s / Michael C. Hudson -- The future of human rights in the Arab world / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Democracy, development, and human rights : can women achieve change without conflict? / Nadia Hijab -- The political economy of Arab international relations. The shape of inter-Arab politics in 1995 / Rashid I. Khalidi -- Unwelcome guests : the political economy of Arab relations with the superpowers / Bahgat Korany -- The economy : breakthrough or breakdown? / The lean years : the political economy of Arab oil in the coming decade / George T. Abed -- Arab agriculture in 1995 : apocalypse or muddling through? / Alan Richards. (cont.) The prospects of technological growth in Arab societies : an analysis of the potential for progress toward technological autonomy in the Arab world, 1985-95 / Michael J. Simpson -- Cultural change, creativity, and authenticity. Challenges to Arab cultural authenticity / Issa J. Boullata -- Cultural creation in a fragmented society / Kamal Abu-Deeb -- Social transformations. Future Arab economic-demographic potential : whither policy? / Ismail A. Sirageldin -- Arab women : 1995 / Leila Ahmed -- Class structure and social change in the Arab world : 1995 / Samih K. Farsoun -- The Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel : the political economy of a garrison state and its future / Joel Beinin -- Palestinian impasse : constraints and opportunities / Naseer H. Aruri -- The implications of current trends in the Arab-Israeli military balance / Anthony H. Cordesman -- Priorities for Arab studies. Social science research and Arab studies in the coming decade / John Waterbury. (cont.) In search of a new identity of the social sciences in the Arab world : discourse, paradigm, and strategy / El Sayed Yassin -- Middle East studies in the United States : the coming decade / Judith E. Tucker -- Futurology and the study of the Arab world / Elia T. Zureik.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : patriarchy and dependency and the future of Arab society / Hisham Sharabi --
The state, democracy, and human rights. Forecast for the future : state and society in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya in 1995 / Ibrahim Ibrahim --
State, society, and legitimacy : an essay on Arab political prospects in the 1990s / Michael C. Hudson --
The future of human rights in the Arab world / Saad Eddin Ibrahim --
Democracy, development, and human rights : can women achieve change without conflict? / Nadia Hijab --
The political economy of Arab international relations. The shape of inter-Arab politics in 1995 / Rashid I. Khalidi --
Unwelcome guests : the political economy of Arab relations with the superpowers / Bahgat Korany --
The economy : breakthrough or breakdown? / The lean years : the political economy of Arab oil in the coming decade / George T. Abed --
Arab agriculture in 1995 : apocalypse or muddling through? / Alan Richards. (cont.) The prospects of technological growth in Arab societies : an analysis of the potential for progress toward technological autonomy in the Arab world, 1985-95 / Michael J. Simpson --
Cultural change, creativity, and authenticity. Challenges to Arab cultural authenticity / Issa J. Boullata --
Cultural creation in a fragmented society / Kamal Abu-Deeb --
Social transformations. Future Arab economic-demographic potential : whither policy? / Ismail A. Sirageldin --
Arab women : 1995 / Leila Ahmed --
Class structure and social change in the Arab world : 1995 / Samih K. Farsoun --
The Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel : the political economy of a garrison state and its future / Joel Beinin --
Palestinian impasse : constraints and opportunities / Naseer H. Aruri --
The implications of current trends in the Arab-Israeli military balance / Anthony H. Cordesman --
Priorities for Arab studies. Social science research and Arab studies in the coming decade / John Waterbury. (cont.) In search of a new identity of the social sciences in the Arab world : discourse, paradigm, and strategy / El Sayed Yassin --
Middle East studies in the United States : the coming decade / Judith E. Tucker --
Futurology and the study of the Arab world / Elia T. Zureik.

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