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Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
A publication of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Arab Studies Quarterly is the largest circulating journal in English devoted to the Arab world.
Articles from Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall
An Economy in a Debt Trap: Iraqi Debt 1980-2020
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INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE WILL EXAMINE THREE variables -- war, debt and oil -- in an organic manner in an examination of cause and effect in Iraq during the period 1980-2020. The 1980s began with Iraq recognized as being one of the highly promising...
Foreign Policy by Catharsis: The Failure of U.S. Policy toward Iraq
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TEN YEARS AFTER THE GULF WAR, U.S. policy toward Iraq continues to suffer from an over-reliance on military solutions, an abuse of the United Nations and international law, and a disregard for the human suffering resulting from the policy. Furthermore,...
Guest Editors' Notes
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SINCE IT'S FOUNDING IN 1979, in the tradition of its founding coeditors, Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (Rahimahu allah), Arab Studies Quarterly has provided a forum for the critique of scholarship, policy and power politics as they relate to the...
Japan-Iraq Relations: The Perception Gap and Its Influence on Diplomatic Policies
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JAPAN'S DIPLOMATIC POLICY TOWARD Iraq is only a dependent variable within its policy toward the Middle East region as a whole. Following the Second World War Japan has been largely influenced by its unique relationship with the United States. Many...
Oil, Sanctions, Debt and the Future
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LOOKING AT THE WORLD MAP of oil we find certain facts to have shaped the history of Iraq and its regional context and will continue to do so for a long time to come. At the end of 1999 world oil reserves amounted to 1033 billion barrels of oil with...
Petition on Behalf of the Children of Iraq Submitted to the United Nations Charging President Bush and U.S. Authorities Actions Constitute Acts of Genocide
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EDITOR'S NOTE: In September of 1991 Francis Boyle asked the Coalition to Stop U.S. intervention in the Middle East to submit an Indictment, Complaint and Petition for Relief from Genocide by President George Herbert Walker Bush and the United States...
Russian-Iraqi Relations: A Historical and Political Analysis
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RUSSIAN (BETWEEN 1917-1991 SOVIET)-Iraqi relations have been generally part and parcel of their relations with the Third World countries and their national liberation movements, particularly Arab nationalism, which for both historical and geostrategic...
The Regional and Domestic Political Consequences of Sanctions Imposed on Iraq, Libya and Sudan
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THIS ARTICLE WILL ASSUME that readers know the background which brought the United Nations Security Council to impose mandatory sanctions on the three countries which are covered in the article. It will focus exclusively on the conclusions which can...
