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Security In The Middle East: Regional Change And Great Power Strategies book cover

1st Edition

Security In The Middle East Regional Change And Great Power Strategies

By Mark Bruzonsky, Shaun Murphy, Samuel F. Wells Copyright 1988
368 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the deep-seated problems in the Middle East and their impact on the United States and its allies. Exploring the disruptive effects of the double-edged sword of nationalism and modernization, the contributors discuss the full range of Western security interests in the region. Case studies of key countries emphasize the prospect for peaceful political, economic, and cultural... Read more

Preface -- Introduction -- Stability and Change Within the Region -- Syria -- Lebanon -- Israel -- Egypt -- Saudi Arabia -- Iraq -- Iran -- The Palestinian Quagmire: Searching for a Way Out -- Creating the Conditions for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations -- The Long Search for Peace: A Progressive Israeli View -- The Palestinian Problem and U.S. Policy -- The Great Powers, Oil, and the Middle East -- Middle East Oil and the Industrial Democracies: Conflict and Cooperation in the Aftermath of the Oil Shocks -- Soviet Decisionmaking for the Middle East -- Soviet Policy in the Middle East -- American Diplomacy and Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Peace Since 1967 -- A Political/Military Strategy for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia

Biography

Samuel F. Wells, JR., is associate director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Mark A. Bruzonsky is a political consultant in Washington, D.C.

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