Unaffordable Ambitions: Syria's Military Build-Up and Economic Crisis (Policy Papers)

Clawson, Patrick

Business & Money

Washington Inst for Near East Pol

The Economic Consequences of Peace for Israel, the Palestinians, and Jordan (Policy Papers)

Rosen, Howard

Iran's Challenge to the West: How, When, and Why (Policy Papers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Last Arab Israeli Battlefield

Washington Institute For

This report represents the findings and recommendations of the Presidential Study Group (a bipartisan group of statesmen, diplomats, legislators, scholars, and journalists organized under the auspices of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), which met in 2000-2001 and traveled to the Middle East to meet with leaders. The booklet offers chapters on Arab-Israeli diplomacy, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, Iraq and Iran, and regional strategy. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Navigating Through Turbulence: America and the Middle East in a New Century

Washington Institute for Near East Policy Presidential Study Group

Satloff, Robert B.

Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Middle East in Focus)

<p>Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous. From the struggle between the Shah and</p>

History

Middle East

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>As Iran edges closer to acquiring a nuclear bomb and its missiles extend an ever darker diplomatic shadow over the Middle East and Europe, Iran is likely to pose three threats. First, Iran could dramatically up the price of oil by interfering with the free passage of vessels in and through the Persian Gulf as it did during the l980s or by threatening to use terrorist proxies to target other states' oil facilities. Second, it could diminish American influence in the Gulf and Middle East by increasing the pace and scope of terrorist activities against Iraq, Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states, Israel, and other perceived supporters of the United States. Finally, it could become a nuclear proliferation model for the world and its neighbors (including many states that otherwise would be more dependent on the United States for their security) by continuing to insist that it has a right to make nuclear fuel under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and then withdrawing once it decides to get a bomb. To contain and deter Iran from posing such threats, the United States and its friends could take a number of steps: increasing military cooperation (particularly in the naval sphere) to deter Iranian naval interference; reducing the vulnerability of oil facilities in the Gulf outside of Iran to terrorist attacks, building and completing pipelines in the lower Gulf region that would allow most of the non-Iranian oil and gas in the Gulf to be exported without having to transit the Straits of Hormuz; diplomatically isolating Iran by calling for the demilitarization of the Straits and adjacent islands, creating country-neutral rules against Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty state members who are suspected of violating the treaty.</p>

Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran

Sokolski, Henry

Strategic Studies Institute (US Army War College)

The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its economic development, as well as its political and social history. This book is the first detailed study of Iran's monetary history from the advent of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 to the end of Qajar rule in 1925. Using an array of previously unpublished sources in ten languages, the authors consider the specific monetary conditions in Iran's modern history, covering the use of ready money and its circulation, the changing conditions of the country's mints and the role of the state in managing money. Throughout the book, the authors also consider the larger regional and global economic context within which the Iranian economy operated. As the first study of Iran's monetary history, this book will be essential reading for researchers of Iranian and economic history.

The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars (Iran and the Persianate World)

Matthee, Rudi

Floor, Willem

Economics

I.B.Tauris

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