Book reviews

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Lebanon's Quest: The Road to Statehood 1926–1939 by Meir Zamir. London: I.B. Tauris, 1997. Pp.iv + 313, notes, bibliography, index. £45.00. Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate by Gabriel Sheffer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 1065, bibliography, index. Futile Diplomacy, Volume Three: The United Nations, the Great Powers and Middle East Peacemaking, 1948–1954 by Neil Caplan. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xxvi + 390, index. £45.00/$59.50. Volume Four: Operation Alpha and the Failure of Anglo‐American Coercive Diplomacy in the Arab‐Israeli Conflict, 1954–1956, by Neil Caplan. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xvi + 414, index. £47.50/$59.50. Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945–1954 by Michael J. Cohen. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xvi + 349, bibliography, maps, index. £37.50/$49.50. The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion edited by Gary G. Sick and Lawrence G. Potter. London: Macmillan, 1997. Pp.356. £40.00. African Islam and Islam in Africa by Eva Evers Rosander and David Westerlund. Pp.347.