TY  - BOOK
AU  - Primakov,E.M.
TI  - Russia and the Arabs : : behind the scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present / 
SN  - 9780465004751 (alk. paper)
AV  - DS63.1   .P772513 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Basic Books, 
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The nationalist revolutionaries -- A failed chance for Arab-Israeli relations -- The inevitable confrontation with the west -- National interests take precedence over Arab unity -- The Soviet Union and the Arab world: a difficult path to closer ties -- The lost cause of Communism -- America steps forward -- The beginning and end of the six-day war -- USA: tactics in the new Middle East -- Hidden pressures behind the Yom Kippur War of 1973 -- The making of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty -- Lebanon in the eye of a storm -- A return to a harder line -- The Arafat phenomenon -- The Soviet Union and Israel -- The phenomenon that was Saddam Hussein -- The sage of the Kurds -- A nuclear shadow over the Arab-Israeli conflict -- The future of the Middle East
ER  -