Superpower Involvement In The Middle East

Paul Marantz

• Westview Special Studies -- Preface -- The View from Moscow -- The Soviet View of the Utility of Force in the Third World -- Soviet Perspectives on Islam as a Third World Political Force -- Moscow's Perceptions of Recent American Involvement in the Middle East: Implications for Soviet Policy -- Moscow, Damascus, and the Lebanese Crisis of 1982–1984 -- Soviet Policy in the Middle East: The Crucial Change -- The View from Washington -- Oil as a Factor in U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East -- Faulty Assumptions, Failed Policy: The Arabists and the PLO During the First Reagan Administration -- American Perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Iranian-Iraqi War: The Need for a New Look -- Evaluating Reagan's Middle East Policy: A First Term Balance Sheet -- The Impact of the Great Powers -- The Great Powers and Conflict Transformation in the Arab-Israeli Dispute -- The Dynamics of Superpower Involvement in the Middle East: Retrospect and Prospect