Karl Yambert, PhD, is an independent scholar who holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Davis.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout This BookPart I. Geopolitical Context: Five Perspectives on the Greater Middle EastChapter One Freedom and Democracy in the Greater Middle EastDick CheneyChapter Two America's Engagement with the Middle EastBarack ObamaChapter Three Accepting the Inalienable Right of IranHassan RouhaniChapter Four Address to the American CongressBenjamin NetanyahuChapter Five Saudi Arabia: Regional Politics and the Rivalry with IranMatthew GrayPart II. Nuclear Proliferation and Chemical Weapons: Israel, Iran, Pakistan, SyriaChapter Six Israel, Iran, and the Arms Control Paradox in the Middle EastBrent J. TalbotChapter Seven Domestic Motivations of the Iranian Nuclear ProgramGaukhar Mukhatzhanova and Nicholas BowenChapter Eight The Triangle: Iran, Israel, and the United StatesJalil RoshandelChapter Nine Regional Nuclear States: Israel, Iran, and PakistanRichard Dean Burns and Joseph M. SiracusaChapter Ten Pakistan and India: The Enduring ConflictAmit GuptaChapter Eleven Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical WeaponsU.S. Department of State et al.Part III. Israel and Palestine, Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran and SyriaChapter Twelve No More NakbasMahmoud AbbasChapter Thirteen Regional Politics and Proxy Groups: Iran, Hamas, and HezbollahJalil RoshandelChapter Fourteen Hezbollah in LebanonDavid S. SorensonChapter Fifteen Hezbollah, Syria, and ISISJames Worrall, Simon Mabon, and Gordon ClubbPart IV. DronesChapter Sixteen Predator Strikes in the War on TerrorismWilliam C. BanksChapter Seventeen Framework for Lethal, Targeted Action against Al-QaedaBarack ObamaChapter Eighteen Drones: Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary ExecutionsChristof HeynsChapter Nineteen The Civilian Impact of Drones: Sample Strike AnalysisBen EmmersonPart V. Islamic Insurgencies: Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Islamic State, ChechnyaChapter Twenty Islamic Insurgencies: Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Islamic StateKarl YambertChapter Twenty-One Palestinian Precedents: The Origins of Al-Qaeda's Use of Suicide TerrorismBenjamin T. AcostaChapter Twenty-Two Conventional and Unconventional War in IraqJohn A. GentryChapter Twenty-Three The Taliban and Al-Qaeda in AfghanistanJohn A. GentryChapter Twenty-Four The Taliban, Affiliated Insurgent Groups, and Pakistan and IranMark SilinskyChapter Twenty-Five Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq and SyriaDenise N. Baken and Ioannis MantzikosChapter Twenty-Six The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS): Building a Caliphate in the LevantColin P. ClarkeChapter Twenty-Seven The Caucasus Emirate: Conditions in the North CaucasusElena PokalovaPart VI. Libya and the MaghrebChapter Twenty-Eight Libya and Security Challenges in the MaghrebYahia H. ZoubirChapter Twenty-Nine Post-Gaddafi LibyaRichard A. Lobban Jr. and Christopher H. DaltonChapter Thirty Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)Denise N. Baken and Ioannis MantzikosAppendix: PersonsGlossaryAbout the ContributorsIndex

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