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Article: The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics, 1955-1967.
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
- Author:
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This objective and meticulously researched volume exploits recently declassified sources in the West and newlyavailable Arabic language materials to reassess the turbulent years from Israel's Gaza raid in February of 1995 through the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and its immediate aftermath. Fawaz Gerges focuses on how intensification of the Cold War led to increased superpower intervention in the Middle East, and especially on how superpower competition enabled local powers to manipulate their great-power patrons to advance their own regional ambitions. Indeed, the bargaining position of regional powers increased, Gerges argues, in "direct proportion to the growing hostilities ...