Bibliographie Essay ••• 525(Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999). The official EU 2000 report is on the Web at
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/turkey2/.
Four personal accounts of the Middle East by foreign travelers are Christopher
De Bellaigne, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir o/Iran (London:
HarperCollins, 2004); Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, The Arab
World: Forty Years of Change (New York: Anchor Books, 1997); Tony Horwitz,
Baghdad Without a Map (New York: Dutton, 1991); and Tim Mackintosh-Smith,
Travels in Dictionary Land (London: John Murray, 1997).
CHAPTER 21Of the textbooks available on Middle East politics, the best are James Bill and
Robert Springborg, Politics in the Middle East, 5th ed. (New York: Addison-Wesley,
2000); Raymond Hinnebusch, International Politics of the Middle East (Manches¬
ter, UK: Manchester U. Press, 2003); and David E. Long and Bernard Reich, eds.,
The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, 4th ed. (Boulder:
Westview Press, 2002). On economics, see Alan Richards and John Waterbury, A
Political Economy of the Middle East: State, Class, and Economic Development, 2nd
ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998); and Roger Owen, State, Power, and Politics in
the Making of the Modern Middle East, 3rd ed. (London and New York: Routledge,
2004). A collection of essays by leading Middle East scholars at the turn of the mil¬
lennium, edited by Robert O. Freedman, is The Middle East Enters the Twenty-first
Century (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002).
Many books have appeared on the terrorist attacks commonly called 9/11, but
your best point of departure is The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the Na¬
tional Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (New York: W. W.
Norton, 2004), because it is not only well written and thorough but also has biblio¬
graphical sources and is available online at http://www.9-llcommission.gov/report/
91 lReportpdf. Further works on terrorism include Mitchell Young, ed., The War on
Terrorism (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003), which is a series of essays arguing for
and against American policies in the "War on Terror"; and Stephen Zunes, Tinder-
box: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Monroe, ME: Common
Courage Press, 2002), a tightly argued work asserting that US policies have con¬
tributed to the rise of the terrorist threat. On Hizballah and its Lebanese context, see
Judith Palmer Harik, Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism (London and New
York: I. B. Tauris, 2004). Numerous other books have been published about the "War
on Terrorism." There are many resources on the Web; start with the detailed Naval
Postgraduate School site: http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/terrorism.htm.
On the neoconservatives, the genesis of the movement is treated best in John
Ehrman, The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). The George W. Bush cabinet is covered