Introduction / Giacomo Luciani and Felix Neugart -- Pac Americana in the Middle East : promises and pitfalls / Michael C. Hudson -- After Iraq : prospects for democratization in the Middle East and North Africa / Giacomo Luciani -- After Iraq : is the Israeli-Arab conflict closer to resolution? / Henry Siegman -- The new Iraq : challenges for state-building / Ofra Bengio -- Iraq and the perils of regime change : from international pariah to a fulcrum of regional instability / Toby Dodge -- Iraq : future of the oil industry / Walid Khadduri -- Iran, the United States and the war on Baghdad / David Menashri -- Turkey, Europe and the Iraq War / Philip J. Robins -- Three years into Syria's presidential succession : Bashar al-Asad's agenda between domestic demands and regional risks / Volker Perthes -- Syria and the war on Iraq / Marius Deeb -- The EU's CFSP and the Middle East challenge / Steven Everts -- Thinking about the EU's future neighbourhood policy in the Middle East : from the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to "Barcelona Plus" / Felix Neugart and Tobias Schumacher