The Middle East.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Congressional Quarterly, inc
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2005], ©2005.
Edition:Tenth edition.
Subjects:
Middle East > Politics and government > 1979-
Physical Description:x, 593 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Overview of the Middle East
  • A historically important region
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • The Persian Gulf
  • Origins of the conflict
  • The British mandate
  • Partition of Palestine
  • Early Arab-Israeli relations
  • The 1956 Suez crisis and war
  • Arab rivalries
  • The June 1967 war
  • The October 1973 war
  • Role of the PLO
  • Camp David Accords
  • The Israeli invasions of Lebanon
  • Diplomacy, 1982-1987
  • The Intifada, 1987-1991
  • The U.S.-PLO dialogue
  • Seeds of agreement
  • Post-OSLO
  • Camp David and the al-Aqsa Intifada
  • U.S. policy in the Middle East
  • U.S. foreign policy formation
  • The Executive Branch
  • Congress
  • The public and foreign policy
  • U.S. Middle East policy
  • The Persian Gulf
  • The Iran-Iraq rivalry
  • The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
  • The Persian Gulf crisis, 1990-1991
  • Persian Gulf War, 1991
  • Containing Iraq
  • The Iraq War, 2003
  • Postwar developments
  • Islamic extremism and terrorism
  • Iran, Pakistan, and the "Islamic bomb"
  • Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Middle Eastern oil and gas
  • History
  • Prices plummet
  • The Persian Gulf Crisis and war
  • Oil in the twenty-first century
  • Natural gas
  • Fifteen centuries of Islam
  • Unity and diversity
  • Islam and the West
  • Arabia : birthplace of the Muslim community
  • Foundations of Islamic faith and practice
  • Islam today
  • The struggle in Islam
  • Country profiles
  • Egypt
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Lebanon
  • Libya
  • Persian gulf states
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syria
  • Yemen
  • Appendix
  • Chronology of major events, 1900-1944
  • Chronology of major events, 1944-present.