"The fads of the 1990s-the clash of civilisations and the epistemologi-cal jungle of the debate on Orientalism-were but the latest in a long line of such aberrant idealist and unanchored elucubra-tions." Thus speaks the stem, scholarly voice of Fred Halliday, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, as he dismisses attempts to fit the international relations of the Middle East into easy, fashionable theories. He has no patience, either, with musings on the Arab psyche let alone facile hopes for a new world order or a democratic peace.
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