Breaking through the Wall of Fear in the Arab World

Augustus Richard Norton is a professor of political science at the United States Military Academy. He is, with Muhammad Muslih, the coauthor of Rising Tides in the Middle East (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1992); and, with Jerrold Green, the coauthor of Rulers under Siege: Middle East Politics in the 1990s (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, forthcoming). The views expressed in this article are those of the author and should not be construed to represent the policy or position of the United States government or any of its constituent institutions.