John O. Voll and John L. Esposito, Islam's Democratic Essence
Ripostes by Patrick Clawson, Joshua Muravchik, Barry Rubin, and Robert B. Satloff

The Gulf Monarchies Open Up

Kenneth Katzman, How Stable Are Saudi Arabia and Kuwait?

Mohammad Al Rumaihi, Kuwait: Oasis of Liberalism?

Negotiations across the Golan Heights

Eyal Zisser, Asad Inches toward Peace

Raymond Cohen, Culture Gets in the Way

HOT SPOT

Azzedine Layachi, Algerian Crisis, Western Choices

POLICY BRIEF

Douglas E. Streusand, High-Tech to the Rescue in the Persian Gulf

Daniel Pipes, Middle East Mischief

INTERVIEW

James A. Baker III, Looking Back on the Middle East

BOOK REVIEWS

Patrick Clawson on Shimon Peres's The New Middle East

Brief Reviews