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Westview special studies in international relations

Part 1 : The view from Moscow

The Soviet view of the utility of force in the Third World / S.N. MacFarlane

Soviet perspectives on Islam as a Third World political force / Carol R. Saivetz

Moscow's perceptions of recent American involvement in the Middle East : implications for Soviet policy / Herbert L. Sawyer

Moscow, Damascus, and the Lebanese crisis of 1982-1984 / Robert O. Freedman

Soviet policy in the Middle East : the crucial change / Dina Rome Spechler

Part 2 : The view from Washington

Oil as a factor in U.S. policy toward the Middle East / David G. Haglund

Faulty assumptions, failed policy : the Arabists and the PLO during the first Reagan administration / Martin Indyk

American perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iranian-Iraqi war : the need for a new look / James R. Kurth

Evaluating Reagan's Middle East policy : a first term balance sheet / John H. Sigler

Part 3 : The impact of the great powers

The great powers and conflict transformation in the Arab-Israeli dispute / Shmuel Sandler

The dynamics of superpower involvement in the Middle East : retrospect and prospect / Blema S. Steinberg.

Middle East > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.

Middle East > Foreign relations > United States.

Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Middle East.

United States > Foreign relations > Middle East.