The Middle East and the international system : the impact of the 1973 war -- The impact of the Middle East crisis on super-power relations / Malcolm Mackintosh -- The Arab-Israeli conflict : the next phase / Hisham Sharabi -- Future Arab options / Hans Maull -- Military lessons of the October War / A. Merglen -- The military build-up : arms control or arms trade? / Geoffrey Kemp -- Committee discussions : the impact of the 1973 war : report to the conference / Leslie Aspin -- The Arab-Israeli dispute : great power behaviour / Lawrence L. Whetten -- The Soviet record in the Middle East / Peter Mangold -- Revolution in Iran -- Repercussions of the crisis in Iran / Shabram Chubin -- Shifts in the Arab world -- Egypt and Israel : the search for peace -- A homeland for the Palestinians? / Avi Plascov -- The Soviet Union and the PLO / Galia Golan
Summary
"The selections in this volume provide a broad historical background to and assessment of the major issues in the Middle Eastern conflict and the connections between them"--Introduction