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BiblioGov, 2012. — 22 p.Dr. Harkavy is professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University. He has also taught, performed research, or served at the U.S. Army War College, Cornell University, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Kalamazoo College, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the Crocker-Anglo Bank, and the Chemical Fund. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations at Yale University in 1973, having pursued graduate study also at the University of California at Berkeley,
the Harvard Business School, and Basel University in Switzerland. After earning his B.A. at Cornell, he was for eight years a junior officer in the U.S. Army Reserve (artillery). He has written or edited several books, most recently Warfare and the Third World (St. Martin’s Press, 2001), and Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East (Brookings, 1997). This article is adapted from a paper delivered at the Naval War College in March 2001. Because it was prepared before the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the article cannot and does not reflect ongoing events flowing from it.