ABSTRACT
The book is written from an international-relations perspective. Thus it is not a history of the Gulf conflict; it does not trace the events chronologically from beginning to end. What it aims to do is to take a series of ‘lateral slices’ through the conflict examining the crisis from different analytical perspectives. The objective is to provide a more rounded understanding of the conflict and perhaps provide a basis for the reader-student or interested layman-for further investigation. Each of the chapters could, and no doubt will in time, provide the subject for a whole book. Meanwhile perhaps this book can in a single volume set the conflict as a whole in an overtly international relations perspective.
