Russia and the Arabs : Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present By Primakov, Evgeny Publisher : Basic Books Published Date : 2009/09 Binding : Hardcover ISBN : 9780465004751 BookWeb Price : THB 1,017.00 Kinokuniya Privilege Card member price : THB 915.00 Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Usually dispatches within 2-3 weeks. Language : English

 
Preface                                            ix
    The Nationalist Revolutionaries                1  (22)
    A Failed Chance for Arab-Israeli Relations     23 (8)
    The Inevitable Confrontation with the West     31 (12)
    National Interests Take Precedence Over        43 (14)
    Arab Unity
    The Soviet Union and the Arab World: A         57 (18)
    Difficult Path to Closer Ties
    The Lost Cause of Communism                    75 (12)
    America Steps Forward                          87 (14)
    The Beginning and End of the Six-Day War       101(24)
    USA: Tactics in the New Middle East            125(18)
    Hidden Pressures Behind the Yom Kippur War     143(24)
    of 1973
    The Making of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty    167(10)
    Lebanon in the Eye of a Storm                  177(32)
    A Return to a Harder Line                      209(10)
    The Arafat Phenomenon                          219(34)
    The Soviet Union and Israel                    253(48)
    The Phenomenon That Was Saddam Hussein         301(24)
    The Saga of the Kurds                          325(16)
    A Nuclear Shadow Over the Arab-Israeli         341(16)
    Conflict
    The Future of the Middle East                  357(28)
Afterword                                          385(4)
About the Translator                               389(2)
Notes                                              391(6)
Works Cited                                        397(2)
Index                                              399