Abstract
This book is concerned with the broader context of major Middle Eastern wars since 1967. The study of international politics in the Middle East is the study of conflict and war. Students of International Relations deal for the most part with Middle Eastern conflicts as regional phenomena without giving prominence to the regional dynamic of conflict in that part of the world. During the first and second Cold Wars, which spanned the period from the Second World War until the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, regional conflicts in general and in the Middle East in particular tended to be dealt with from the point of view of superpower competition. At that time, bipolarity was the prevailing structural component of the world order. Few authors recognised the Arab-Israeli conflict as having a dynamic of its own, so that most students failed to disentangle this conflict from the competition prevailing between the superpowers. The containment of communism, and of its penetration of the Middle East, was until recently the paramount issue.
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