Soviet Strategy In The Middle East

335 Pages·1990·12.576 MB·English

by  George W. Breslauer

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Volume 22
SOVIET STRATEGY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST
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SOVIET STRATEGY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST
Edited by
GEORGE W. BRESLAUER
With contributions by: Galia Golan, Benjamin Miller,
James Clay Moltz, Dennis B. Ross and Yaacov Ro’i
A book of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies
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Soviet Strategy in
the Middle East
GEORGE W. BRESLAUER
With contributions by: Galia Golan
Benjamin Miller
James Clay Moltz
Dennis B. Ross
Yaacov Ro'i
A book of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies
Boston
UNWIN HYMAN
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© 1990 by Unwin Hyman, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Breslauer, George W.
Soviet strategy in the Middle East / George W. Breslauer, with
contributions by Galia Golan ... [et al.].
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-04-445232-2
1. Middle East—Foreign relations—Soviet Union. 2. Soviet Union—
Foreign relations—Middle East. 3. Soviet Union—Foreign relations—
1975- I. Title.
DS63.2.B74 1989
327.47056—dc20 89-9124
CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Soviet strategy in the Middle East.
1. Soviet Union. Foreign relations with Middle East.
Policies of government
I. Breslauer, George W.
327.47056
ISBN 0-04-445232-2
Typeset in ten on twelve point Palatino
Printed by The University Press, Cambridge
For Yvette, Michelle, and David
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Contents
List of Tables xi
Preface
George W. Breslauer xiii
I. Interpreting Soviet Strategy 1
1. On Collaborative Competition
George W. Breslauer 3
2. Soviet Policy in the Middle East, 1967-72:
Unalterable Antagonism or Collaborative Competition?
George W. Breslauer 23
3. The Soviet Union and the Palestinian Issue
Calia Golan 61
4. Soviet Behavior toward the Lebanon War, 1982--84
Dennis B. Ross 99
5. The Soviet Union and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-88
James Clay Moltz and Dennis B. Ross 123
6. Gorbachev' s Middle East Strategy
Calia Golan 151
II. The Sources of Soviet Strategy: Consensus and Conflict 167
7. Militants, Moderates, and Centrists:
Soviet Perspectives on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1971-87
George W. Breslauer 169
8. The Soviet View of the U.S.-Israeli Partnership
Yaacov Ro'i 217
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