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1 See Alan Munro, `Gulf Security -The War and its Aftermath', Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Journal , August 1993, pp. 6-17.
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2 For a discussion of the `Imperial Argument', see Shahram Chubin, `Post-War Gulf Security', Survival , vol. 33, no. 2, March/April 1991, p. 142.
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3 For arguments supporting the enlargement of political participation in Gulf and Arab Countries, see Gawdat Bahgat, `Military Security and Political Stability in the Gulf', Arab Studies Quarterly , vol. 17, no. 4, Fall 1995, pp. 55-70, and his `Democracy in the Middle East. The American Connection', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism , vol. 17, no. 1, 1994, pp. 87-96. For arguments against US support for democratic change in the Middle East, see Samuel P. Huntington, `The Clash of Civilization', Foreign Affairs , vol. 72, no. 3, Summer 1993, pp. 22-49; Jonathan Paris, `When to Worry in the Middle East', Orbis , vol. 37, no. 4, Fall 1993, p. 563, and David Padlock, `The Arab Street? Public Opinion in the Arab World', The Washington Institute Policy Paper No. 32 (1992).
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4 For a comparison of Gulf countries' GDP growth rates see International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook, May 1995 (Washington DC: IMF, 1995), Table A6.
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5 Vahan Zanoyan, `After the Oil Boom', Foreign Affairs , vol. 74, no. 6, December 1995, pp. 2-7.
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6 For a legal analysis of Three Offset Programs in the Gulf, see a series of three articles written by E. Ellis Jr. and associates, `Offset Programs in the Gulf', Middle East Executive Reports , July 1995, p. 8 and 16-19 (August 1995), pp. 9-13 and 23-26, and (September 1995), pp. 9-12 and 23-27. See also the proceedings of International Business and Offset in the Arabian Gulf , Conference Organized by IBC Gulf Conferences and Afridi and Angel, 4-7 May, 1996, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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7 US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1993-1994 (Washington DC: US GPO, February 1995), Table III.
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8 OECD, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients 1990-1994 (Paris: OECD, 1996), pp. 36-37.
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9 For a lengthy discussion of Saudi-Iranian relations, see Saleh Al-Mani, `The Ideological Dimension in Saudi-Iranian Relations', in Jamal Al-Suwaidi, ed., Iran and the Gulf, A Search for Stability , (Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, forthcoming).
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10 On 3 June, 1996, the Bahraini Minister of Interior announced the arrest of a militant group of 44 persons who had been trained and financed by the Iranian Intelligence and Hizb Allah in Iran and Lebanon, to carry out subversive activities in Bahrain. See Al-Hayat 5 June, 1996.
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11 The Demona Reactor is located approximately sixty kilometers away from the Israeli-Egyptian border in Sinai. The movement of radio-active isotopes in the water table is very slow. In case of severe earthquakes or nuclear accidents, Egyptian wells in Northern Sinai as well as Israeli wells in the Negev Desert will be the first to feel contamination. For a study of nuclear design and potential release of fission products, see: J. Tzoref, S. Ron, and J. Szabo `Beyond design depressurization accident in a medium size HTGR', The Israeli Nuclear Society Meeting Transactions , vol. 16, (Herzlia: December 1990), pp. 145-149. For earthquakes and its impact on geological formations in the Negev, see: A. Salamon, A. Hofstetter, Z. Garfuncle, and H. Ron. `Seismotectonics of the Sinai Subplate' Annual Meeting of the Israeli Geological Society, Ashqelon, Israel, 30 March - 1 April, 1992. Natural and industrial (nuclear reactor related) environmental radiation in Beer-Sheva, Negev, is studied by A. A. Haccoun, `Aerosol Measurements in a Semi-Arid Zone (Beer-sheva) Using Nuclear Methods', (Ph. D. Dissertation), Beersheba, Israel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, September 1980.