Conflict Management in the Middle East

Abstract

Part 1 Theoretical underpinnings: preventing war in the Middle East, Janice Stein and Richard Ned Lebow crisis avoidance and conflict resolution, Abraham Ben-Zvi and Mark Heller explaining greater power co-operation in conflict management, Benjamin Miller. Part 2 Historical cases: Arab-Israeli crises, 1945-1990, Steven L. Spiegel the crisis experience in perspective, Dmitir Trophimov the crisis experience in the Middle East, Aharon Yariv the superpowers' crisis experience in the Middle East, Mostafa Saif Soviet decision making in the Six Day War, 1967, Fred Wehling competitive politics and Soviet policy toward the Arab-Israeli dispute, 1971-1972, Richard Anderson changes in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Yehoshfat Harkabi the Palestinian problem, Ziad Abu Amr the Palestinian question, Shibley Telhgami triangle of tension, Georgi Mirski the Gulf crisis, the Middle East and the conflict triangle, George Nader. Part 3 Policy implications: Soviet-American co-operation in the Middle East, Graham Fuller Soviet-American co-operation and the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Galia Golan and Gur Ofer beyond the Cold War, Emile Sahliyeh the Soviet Union and the Middle East settlement, Alexei Vassiliev bilateral Soviet-American relations, Andre Shoumikhin bilateral Soviet-American co-operation in the Middle East - an Israeli view, Dore Gold the future of arms control in the Middle East, Michael Intriligator.