Screen LibraryRussia and the Arabs：behind the scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present
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Basic Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Konfident︠s︡ialʹno. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 418 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780465004751 (hbk.) 046500475X (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D837 |
| CLC: | D837.025.12 |
| Call Number: | D837.025.12/P952 |
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"Originally published in Russian in 2006 as Confidential: the Middle East onstage and backstage by rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia." -- T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-398) 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 a "In Russia and the Arabs, Americans are given a look at Cold War and now post-Cold War relationships in the Middle East through the eyes and roles of Yevgeny Primakov - Russia's Kissinger in every sense of that name. '[The Middle East] is a region I have followed for half a century as a journalist, academic and politician - as a correspondent for Pravda; as deputy director (and later director) of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the USSR Academy of Science; at the Academy's Institute of Oriental Studies; as head of the SVR (Russia's foreign intelligence service). |