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SUMMER 2008 • VOLUME 15: NUMBER 3

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Since its founding in 1994, the Middle East Quarterly has become America's most authoritative journal of Middle Eastern affairs. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists turn first to the Quarterly, for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region. The Quarterly publishes groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns – from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan. The Quarterly, founded by Daniel Pipes and edited by Michael Rubin, appears in a print edition, and is available in full-text (except the current issue) on this website.

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FOCUS ON GOVERNANCE

Saliba Sarsar and David B. Strohmetz, The Economics of Democracy in Muslim Countries
What do GDP and military expenditures say about democracy?

Caroline Sevier, The Costs of Relying on Aging Dictators
Troubled succession ahead for anti-democratic strongmen

Steven Stotsky, Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?
The disturbing-and ignored-correlation between money and violence

Milena Uhlmann, European Converts to Terrorism
Security officials worry about a new breed of radical Islamists

Denis MacEoin, Tactical Hudna and Islamist Intolerance
Helping Westerners understand what Muslims mean by truce

Dmitry Shlapentokh, The Rise of the Chechen Emirate?
The struggle in Chechnya between Islamists and nationalists

Eyal Zisser, An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria
Did Israel's air strike change the balance of power?

DOCUMENT

Ending Londonistan
Cultural appeasement doesn't work. Introduced by Melanie Phillips

COMMENTARY

E. Haldun Solmazturk, Turkish Secularism Is Democratic
A Turkish general defends separation of mosque and state

CORRESPONDENCE

Bashar al-Assad … Abrogation in Islam … The Middle East's Tribal DNA

REVIEWS

Brief Reviews
Iranian bazaar ... The PKK ... Jordan river basin ... Palestinian police ... Yemen

DISSIDENT WATCH

Scott Carpenter, Mohsen Marzouk
A Tunisian activist seeks international support for democratization