SEMINARS

TRAINING & EDUCATION IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
1996 Seminar

The Foreign Policies of Arab States   C O N T E N T S
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Part One: Lectures and Discussions   

• Opening Remarks and Introduction
  by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi
• The State in the International System - Alternative Theoretical Frameworks
  by Dr. Rosemary Hollis
• The Arab States in the Regional and International System:
  I. Foundations of the Arab System
  by Dr. Bahgat Korany
• Decision-Making Theory: Three Approaches
  by Dr. Rosemary Hollis
• The Arab States in the Regional and International System:
  II. Rise of New Governing Elite and the Militarization of the Political System (Evolution)
  by Dr. Bahgat Korany
• The Arab States in the Regional and International System:
  III. Foreign Policy Decision-Making: An Academic View
  by Dr. Bahgat Korany
• The Second Track - The Multilateral Talks in the Middle East Peace Process
  by Dr. Joel Peters
• The Arab League and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi
• Egypt’s Regional Role and Foreign Policy Imperatives
  by HE Ahmad Kamal
• Syria: National Security and State-Building
  by Dr. Volker Perthes
• Discussion: The Arab States, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process: Some Comparisons and Contrasts
• Syrian Interests and Role in Lebanon
  by Dr. Volker Perthes
• The Maghreb States: Foreign Policy Priorities
  by Dr. Claire Spencer
• The Maghreb States, the Arab Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process
  by Dr. Claire Spencer
• The Arab States and Jerusalem
  by Mr. Faisal Husseini
• External Powers and the Arab States: Positions on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (I):
  The American Approach to the Palestine Problem and the Middle East
  by HE Edward Abington
• External Powers and the Arab States: Positions on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (II):
  The European Approach to the Palestine Problem and the Middle East
  by HE Richard Dalton
• Exercise: Lobbying the External Powers
  with Dr. Rosemary Hollis
• Resources Scarcity as the New Regional Imperative
  by Dr. Rosemary Hollis
• War and Its Impact on Foreign Policy
  by Dr. Yezid Sayigh
• A Palestinian-Israeli encounter on Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
  by HE Afif Safieh, PLO Representative to the UK and to the Vatican, and Yael Dayan, Member of Knesset
• The Evolution of Palestine
  by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi
• The Foreign Policy of the PLO
  by Dr. Yezid Sayigh
• Jordanian Foreign Policy
  by Dr. Yezid Sayigh
• Political Islam in the Arab World
  by Sheikh Jamil Hamami
• Foreign Policy Imperatives of Saudi Arabia
  by Dr. Rosemary Hollis
• Exercise: Responding to Regional Crisis and Policy Makers for the Arab States
  with Dr. Rosemary Hollis
• Policy Imperatives for Palestine - View from the PNA
  by Dr. Sami Musallam
• Lebanon’s Place in the Region
  by Dr. Basma Kodmani-Darwish

Part Two: Country Profiles

• Browse "CIA World Factbook" by Country:

  www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/country.html

Appendices

• Lecture Program
• Lecturers
• Palestinian Participants
• Reading Material

The PASSIA Seminar 1996 on The Foreign Policies of Arab States is kindly supported by the Ford Foundation.

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