Democratization in the Middle East: Quandaries of the Peace Process

Issue Date July 1996
Volume 7
Issue 3
Page Numbers 139-53
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About the Author

Etel Solingen is associate professor of political science at the University of California-Irvine, and a 1995–96 MacArthur Fellow on Peace and International Cooperation. Her articles on the peace process in the Middle East have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Security, and Peace and Change.

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