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The Middle East and the United States

Edited by Haim Shaked and Itamar Rabinovich
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
Winter 1980/81
The Middle East and the United States
Edited by Haim Shaked and Itamar Rabinovich
Transaction Books
1980
418 pp.
$6.95
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Papers by scholars from America, Europe and Israel presented at a seminar at Tel Aviv University in 1978, Most are of high quality. While the U.S.-Israeli relationship is not far from view at any point, the scope of the volume is quite broad, including inter-Arab relations, Turkey and Iran, and the politics of Middle East oil.

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