Introduction: foreign policies of Arab States. -- Foreign policy analysis in the global era and the world of the Arabs. -- Foreign policy approaches and Arab Countries: a critical evaluation and an alternative framework. -- Globalization and Arab foreign policies: constraints or marginalization? -- From Arab systems to middle Eastern systems?: regional pressures and constraints. -- Regional leadership: balancing off costs and dividens in the foreign policy of Egypt. -- Foreign policy under occupation: does Iraq need a foreign policy? -- Foreign policy as a strategic national asset: the case of Jordan. -- The art of the impossible: the foreign policy of Lebanon. -- The far West of the near East: the foreign policy of Morocco. -- Irreconcilable role-partners?: Saudi foreign policy between the Ulama and the US. -- From fragmentation to fragmentation?: Sudan's foreign policy. -- The challenge of reconstructuring: Syrian foreign policy. -- Politics of constructive engagement: the foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates. -- Conclusion: foreign policy, globalization and the Arab dilemma of change.

1. Arab countries -- Foreign relations