197 - MERIP

November/December 1995

Middle East Report 197 looks at the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf region.


From the Editor (November/December 1995)	The Editors, Joe Stork
Articles
The Most Obscure Dictatorship	Alain Gresh
Gun Belt in the Beltway	Robert Vitalis
Iran and the Virtual Reality of US War Games	William M. Arkin
The Middle East Arms Bazaar After the Gulf War	Joe Stork
Keeping Up with the French	William D. Hartung
Nuclear Counterproliferation in the Middle East	Joshua Handler, Hans M. Kristensen
Special Reports
Column: Own a Piece of Moroc?	Al Miskin
Shari’a of Civil Code? Egypt’s Parallel Legal Systems	Karim El-Gawhary
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon	Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Reviews
Revisiting the New World Order	Simon Bromley

Editor’s Picks (November/December 1995)	The Editors