Picking Up the Pieces

Author: Peter Lampert Bergen
March/April 2002
Foreign Affairs

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The Struggle for Egypt by Steven A. Cook
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Saudi Arabia in the New Middle East by F. Gregory Gause III
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Partners in Preventive Action by Paul B. Stares and Micah Zenko
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