The Struggle for the Middle East - 9781138655416

Taylor & Francis

The Struggle for the Middle EastThe Soviet Union and the Middle East, 1958-68\nAuthor(s): Walter Laqueur\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138655416, 978-1138655416\nSynopsis\nThis book, first published in 1969, surveys Soviet policies and Middle Eastern responses during the turbulent 1960s. It deals with changing moods of Turkey and Iran, the Arab-Israeli conflict in the context of big power rivalry in the Middle East, the Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean, and the new Soviet interest in Gulf oil. The author also reviews the changing orientations of Middle Eastern communism in the new age of polycentrism.