MER Article Issawi, The Arab World's Legacy Charles Issawi, The Arab World’s Legacy: Essays (Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, 1981). Charles Issawi is well known for his important work in the social and economic history of the Middle East, and a number of his contributions are reproduced here. One finds, among other things, discussions of me James A. Reilly • 1 min read
MER Article Discrete Forms of the Petty Bourgeoisie Çağlar Keyder, The Definition of a Peripheral Economy: Turkey, 1923-1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). Gavin Kitching, Class and Economic Change in Kenya (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980. Karen Pfeifer • 7 min read
MER Article Warren's Revision of the Marxist Critique The theory of imperialism is in profound disarray. Many have recognized that dependency theory is inadequate to the task of analyzing the international capitalist economy, [1] while the touchstone of all Marxist analysis of imperialism—Lenin’s Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism—has been questi Gary Nigel Howe • 6 min read
MER Article Imperialism and the Middle East Bill Warren, Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism (London: Verso, 1980). Fred Halliday • 17 min read
MER Article US Aid to Israel The General Accounting Office (GAO), often referred to as “the congressional watchdog agency,” began a full-scale investigation of US aid to Israel in early 1982, without any public announcement or official congressional sponsor. The report was completed in early 1983 and circulated to the relevant Martha Wenger, Joe Stork • 9 min read
MER Article Sadat's Legacy, Mubarak's Dilemma For most countries in the Arab oil economy, the years 1982 and 1983 have marked an important moment of truth. The most obvious reason for this has been the decline in oil revenues as a result of falling world demand, cuts in production and the failure to hold the OPEC base price at $34 a barrel. As Roger Owen • 25 min read
MER Article International Finance and the Third World The foreign debt of the less developed countries (LDCs) of the Third World now stands at around $600 billion. More than half of this—about $350 billion—is owed to private international banks. Events like the strikes and demonstrations in Brazil this summer, or the labor unrest that triggered the mil Jeff Frieden • 20 min read
MER Article From the Editors (September 1983) ”We oppose the militarization of internal conflicts, often abetted and even encouraged by massive US arms exports, in areas of the world such as the Middle East and Central America, while their basic human problems are neglected.” Most people, we believe, would readily support such a straightforward The Editors • 3 min read
