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Islam and the myth of confrontation : religion and politics in the Middle East
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ISBN: 1860648681 9781860648687 Year: 2003 Publisher: London : Tauris,

Shaping the current Islamic reformation
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ISBN: 0714653411 0714682802 020349654X 9780203496541 9780714653419 9780714682808 0203608801 113576302X 1280143231 1135763011 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Cass

Revolutionaries and reformers
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ISBN: 0791487393 1417523964 9781417523962 9780791487396 079145617X 0791456188 9780791456170 9780791487396 9780791456187 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany, NY State University of New York Press

The rubik cube of the wider Middle East
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ISBN: 9290794186 9789290794189 Year: 2003 Publisher: Brussels Centre for European Policy Studies

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Given the complexity and severity of the problems involved, this book asserts that a comprehensive regional initiative for the Wider Middle East is called for and proceeds to outline exactly what that would entail. The first-best solution would be the adoption of a convergent strategy towards the Wider Middle East by the EU and US together. The authors argue that a US policy that waged a unilateral war against Iraq and left the Israeli-Arab conflict still festering would mean counterproductive effects for the fight against Al Qaeda and huge damage to Western-Islamic relations as well as to the transatlantic alliance. At the same time, however, the EU must be prepared to strengthen both the ‘carrots’ and the ‘sticks’ in its policies in the region in any case. The point of the image of Rubik’s Cube is to stress the need for a coherent vision for all three regions of the Wider Middle East (Maghreb, Mashreq and the Gulf), for all three major vectors of policy (politics, economics and security), and for all three major external participants (the US, Europe and the international organisations).

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