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Issue 646 - 12 September 2000

Across the Region

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Across The Region, News, Data & Analysis: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen

Issue 643 - 29 August 2000

Across the Region

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Iran’s reformers have consolidated their disparate political factions into a single parliamentary bloc. The Second Khordad Front could eventually command more than 200

Issue 642 - 15 August 2000

Across the Region

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Arms deals are in the air, with several contracts for the U.K.’s BAe Systems. Bahrain’s new deal was signed at Farnborough; Algeria is buying British equipment through Qatar; and there is speculation that BAe may be negotiating a new-style agreement with Saudi Arabia.

Issue 641 - 25 July 2000

Dredging Up The Past (III)

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Following the imposition of sanctions and other UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Iraq, extra-regional actors’ attitudes towards Baghdad have become central to Iraq’s international rehabilitation. Whilst the inter-state community and international organisations can work to build a humanitarian agenda for economic rehabilitation, it is the permanent members

Issue 640 - 11 July 2000

Dredging Up The Past (II)

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As well as bringing disaster to Kuwait, the August 1990 Iraqi invasion has become synonymous to many Arabs with a decline in the political fortunes of the Arab world and the onset of paralysis in Arab regional organisations. Arab media and inter-Arab diplomacy focuses on two recurrent themes –

Issue 639 - 27 June 2000

Dredging Up The Past (1)

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This is the first of three articles which will look at the changed and changing political imperatives that have come into place in the Gulf region since Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. The second and third articles will look at attitudes towards Iraq from within the region and the wider world community respectively.

Issue 638 - 13 June 2000

Border Disputes In The Gulf

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With the sole exception of Oman, which has resolved all of its border disputes, each of the GCC states has been active in attempting to settle its territorial claims during recent weeks. These disputes have ranged from the highly visible International Court of Justice (ICJ) arbitration over the claims and counterclaims forwarded by Qatar and

Issue 637 - 30 May 2000

Iraq’s Air War

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Tracking the innocuous air defence war over Iraq is not an activity that many journalists stick with for long. To the short-term observer nothing much changes and little of value can be confirmed. Just occasionally, however, the conflict offers fruitful insights into the political dimension of the ongoing conflict with Iraq. In

Issue 636 - 16 May 2000

A Quiet Year For Terrorism

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The US State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism 1999 presents a satisfying picture of the containment of global and Middle Eastern terrorism. In contrast to the 1998 report there were no mass casualty attacks, whilst the encouraging trends displayed in that report - effective counterterrorist activities pushing terrorism into the lawless fringes of world society – continued.

Issue 635 - 02 May 2000

The Danger of Rhetoric

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Iran’s rightist faction has employed a wide array of tools in recent weeks. The constitutional bodies they dominate, including the Assembly of Experts, the Expediency Council and the Guardian Council have used every means at their disposal to negate the reformist victory in the Majlis elections and seek an extension of the current conservative

Issue 634 - 18 April 2000

Opec At The Helm

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The response to Opec’s recent decision to increase production quotas by 7% was, by and large, positive from consumers and producers alike – not least of all the United States where the spectre of high oil prices was beginning to loom increasingly large in public awareness. Opec itself, very naturally, stressed that the decision to raise production

Issue 633 - 04 April 2000

Iraq Trip

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Whilst it is unclear whether the ‘Iraq Trip Report’ recently released by a number of US Democrat and independent congressional staffers will prompt a major reconsideration of US policy on Iraqi sanctions, the report contains many interesting observations on the state of Iraqi society, on its economic prospects and on the future of UN operations in the country. Though only recently released, the report describes the August 1999 trip made by five US legislators to Iraq, and their conclusions on the issues of sanctions and depleted uranium-related illnesses.

Issue 632 - 20 March 2000

Food For Thought

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The Gulf Arab states will have watched the recent parliamentary elections in Iran with more than just neighbourly interest. The high turnout of the electorate was a solid reminder of the democratic process at work in the Islamic Republic and the regional implications of a spread of democracy will not have been lost on the traditonal Arab governments of the area.

Issue 631 - 06 March 2000

Iran Abroad: What Now?

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Although focused on domestic priorities at present, the broad array of reformists in the Iranian parliament know that Washington is central to the success of Iran’s foreign policy agenda. What President Khatami has called the transition in Iranian-Arab Gulf relations “from détente to confidence building and then to lasting bilateral co-operation in the region” can only come about with the assistance of the US.

Issue 630 - 21 February 2000

Iran and the USA

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As Iran’s majlis elections enter the final stretch, thoughts are turning to the aftermath of the polls. American policy makers are beginning to consider how bilateral relations can further improve. The problem is that both countries will for some time yet be locked into unstable internal political situations. Even after the elections, Iranian policy