This book is the result of a conference held in Amman in June 2000, organised by the Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain (CERMOC) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF) Jordan Office. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Walking the tightrope : Jordanian foreign policy from the Gulf Crisis to the peace process and beyond / Markus Bouillon -- Governance, economic transition and Jordan's national security / Maen Nsour -- The effects of external forces on Jordan's process of democratisation / Ali Kassay -- Liberalisation or democratisation? The limits of political reform and civil society in Jordan / Ranjit Singh -- Monarchical stability and political liberalisation : connections between Jordan and Morocco / David Mednicoff -- Embedded authoritarianism : bureaucratic power and the limits to non-governmental organisations in Jordan / Quintan Wiktorowicz -- The weakness of the ruled is the strength of the ruler : the role of the opposition in contemporary Jordan / Renate Dieterich -- Household politics to domestic policies : the effect of demographic transition on socio-political patterns of domination / Françoise de Bel-Air -- The social and political effects of transformation processes in Palestinian refugee camps in the Amman metropolitan area (1989-99) / Ala al-Hamarneh -- Tribalism in Kerak : past memories, present realities / Christine Jungen -- New museographic trends in Jordan : the strengthening of the nation / Irene Maffi -- Transition to development? / Oliver Schlumberger -- The political economy of reform in Jordan : breaking resistance to reform? / Hamid El-Said -- Sectoral actors in the Jordanian economy / Nasim Barham -- The effect of the World Trade Organisation on the Jordanian economy / Rateb Sweis -- Development strategies and the political economy of tourism in contemporary Jordan / Matthew Gray -- Mapping the landscape of the 'New Middle East' : the politics of tourism development and the peace process in Jordan / Waleed Hazbun -- Social adaptive capacity to water crisis : the case of Jordan / Eugenia Ferragina.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.