Shlomo Avineri, in The Brookings Review (Spring 1993), 1775 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The end of the Cold War has transformed poli- tics in the Middle East. The radical Arab forces have lost their Soviet patron, and the Israelis feel less threatened. But a second, less obvious con- sequence of the Soviet empire's collapse is also making for greater stability in the region, accord- ing to Avineri, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This development is the reforging of cultural...