Publisher's Synopsis
This volume attempts to discern the ways in which competitive and collaborative impulses co-exist in Soviet policymaking towards the Middle East. It does not aim to provide a comprehensive history of Soviet policy; its purpose is more limited, which is to offer new fundamental research, and analytic perspectives, on the nature and sources of Soviet strategy in the region, and particularly toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.;The papers in this collection are derived from the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies.
