ABSTRACT
This volume, first published in 1982, provides a comprehensive analysis of the problems affecting the interests of the Western Alliance (the North Americans, the Europeans and the Japanese), the Middle East states, and the Soviet Union. The authors, all internationally recognized experts in their fields, bring together different and distinctive perspectives on such central issues as the Arab-Israeli dispute, the dynamics of the energy crisis, alliance unity and the role of the Soviet Union, and the effect of growing Middle East instability on the interests of individual allied countries. The chapters address the major issues both historically and in terms of current events; and they seek to examine relationships both from the perspective of the various countries and of the Alliance as a whole.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|40 pages
Policies within the Alliance toward the Middle East
part 2|67 pages
Alliance Strategies, Cooperation and Conflict
part 3|30 pages
The Superpower Connection
part 4|49 pages
The Arab World and the Western Alliance
part 5|51 pages
The Major Non-Arab Middle-East States and the Western Alliance