Summer Issue of the Middle East Journal is Now Online

The Summer issue of The Middle East Journal is now available. The online access is here. (For subscribers wishing to access the electronic edition, instructions are here. Non-subscribers can purchase individual articles for a fee.)

The articles (click through to read the abstract) are:

John C. Shenna (pseudonym), "The Case Against the Case Against Iran: Regionalism as the West's Last Frontier." A case for a regional solution by a serving European diplomat writing under a pseudonym.

Ray Takeyh: "The Iran-Iraq War: A Reassessment." Assessing the war 30 years after its outbreak.

April Longley Alley, "The Rules of the Game: Unpacking Patronage Politics in Yemen." How patronage really works in Yemen.

Nora A. Colton, "Yemen: A Collapsed Economy." The title should be self-explanatory.

Donald L. Losman, "The Rentier State and National Oil Companies: An Economic and Political Perspective." On the concept of the rentier state as it relates to national oil companies in the Gulf.

In the Book Review article, Brice Harris reviews five recent books on the history, diplomacy, and politics of the Arab world. That article and the full book review section can be found here.

Our quarterly Chronology, which has appeared in every issue since our first in January 1947, is available here.

Again, for fuller descriptions, click through to the abstracts.