The Next Arab Decade

Preface -- Introduction: Patriarchy and Dependency and the Future of Arab Society -- The State, Democracy, and Human Rights -- Forecast for the Future: State and Society in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya in 1995 -- State, Society, and Legitimacy: An Essay on Arab Political Prospects in the 1990s -- The Future of Human Rights in the Arab World -- Democracy, Development, and Human Rights: Can Women Achieve Change Without Conflict? -- The Political Economy of Arab International Relations -- The Shape of Inter-Arab Politics in 1995 -- Unwelcome Guests: The Political Economy of Arab Relations with the Superpowers -- The Economy: Breakthrough or Breakdown? -- The Lean Years: The Political Economy of Arab Oil in the Coming Decade -- Arab Agriculture in 1995: Apocalypse or Muddling Through? -- The Prospects of Technological Growth in Arab Societies: An Analysis of the Potential for Progress Toward Technological Autonomy in the Arab World, 1985–95 -- Cultural Change, Creativity, and Authenticity -- Challenges to Arab Cultural Authenticity -- Cultural Creation in a Fragmented Society -- Social Transformations -- Future Arab Economic-Demographic Potential: Whither Policy? -- Arab Women: 1995 -- Class Structure and Social Change in the Arab World: 1995 -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict -- Israel: The Political Economy of a Garrison State and Its Future -- Palestinian Impasse: Constraints and Opportunities -- The Implications of Current Trends in the Arab-Israeli Military Balance -- Priorities for Arab Studies -- Social Science Research and Arab Studies in the Coming Decade -- In Search of a New Identity of the Social Sciences in the Arab World: Discourse, Paradigm, and Strategy -- Middle East Studies in the United States: The Coming Decade -- Futurology and the Study of the Arab World