Aurel Braun is associate professor of international relations, University of Toronto.

• Preface -- Part One -- Introduction: On Strategy, Strategic Assessment and the Middle East -- Strategy and Politics: A U.S. Perception -- Regional Actors -- Israel and the Security of the West -- The Emergence of Syria? -- External Influences -- The Middle East in the Strategic Doctrines of the Superpowers -- Power and Limit: U.S. Strategic Doctrine in the Middle East -- The Middle East in Soviet Strategy: The Arab-Israeli Conflict -- The Superpowers and the Middle East: The Maritime Dimension -- Alliances -- Allance Politics in the Middle East: A Security Dilemma Perspective -- NATO and the Middle East -- The Warsaw Pact and the Middle East -- The Gulf: The Middle East -- The Geopolitical Impact of the Islamic Revolution in Iran on the Gulf Region -- The Soviet Union and the Gulf Area -- U.S. Strategic Concerns: Deterrence Dilemmas in the Gulf Region -- Conclusion: Global Strategy, National Interests, and Conflict Management

Aurel Braun is associate professor of international relations, University of Toronto.

• Preface -- Part One -- Introduction: On Strategy, Strategic Assessment and the Middle East -- Strategy and Politics: A U.S. Perception -- Regional Actors -- Israel and the Security of the West -- The Emergence of Syria? -- External Influences -- The Middle East in the Strategic Doctrines of the Superpowers -- Power and Limit: U.S. Strategic Doctrine in the Middle East -- The Middle East in Soviet Strategy: The Arab-Israeli Conflict -- The Superpowers and the Middle East: The Maritime Dimension -- Alliances -- Allance Politics in the Middle East: A Security Dilemma Perspective -- NATO and the Middle East -- The Warsaw Pact and the Middle East -- The Gulf: The Middle East -- The Geopolitical Impact of the Islamic Revolution in Iran on the Gulf Region -- The Soviet Union and the Gulf Area -- U.S. Strategic Concerns: Deterrence Dilemmas in the Gulf Region -- Conclusion: Global Strategy, National Interests, and Conflict Management

Aurel Braun is associate professor of international relations, University of Toronto.

• Preface -- Part One -- Introduction: On Strategy, Strategic Assessment and the Middle East -- Strategy and Politics: A U.S. Perception -- Regional Actors -- Israel and the Security of the West -- The Emergence of Syria? -- External Influences -- The Middle East in the Strategic Doctrines of the Superpowers -- Power and Limit: U.S. Strategic Doctrine in the Middle East -- The Middle East in Soviet Strategy: The Arab-Israeli Conflict -- The Superpowers and the Middle East: The Maritime Dimension -- Alliances -- Allance Politics in the Middle East: A Security Dilemma Perspective -- NATO and the Middle East -- The Warsaw Pact and the Middle East -- The Gulf: The Middle East -- The Geopolitical Impact of the Islamic Revolution in Iran on the Gulf Region -- The Soviet Union and the Gulf Area -- U.S. Strategic Concerns: Deterrence Dilemmas in the Gulf Region -- Conclusion: Global Strategy, National Interests, and Conflict Management