148 - MERIP

September/October 1987

Middle East Report 148 examines the Iran-Iraq war and US intervention therein.

Articles
Reagan Reflags the Gulf	Joe Stork
The Reagan Doctrine and the Secret State	Christopher Hitchens
“Little Satan” Stuck in Arms Export Trap	Diana Johnstone
The USSR and the Gulf War	Fred Halliday
The Elusive Quest for Gulf Security	'Abd al-Hadi Khalaf
When I Found Myself	Dia' Khudair
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gulf	Ahmed Rashid
“A Central American Situation in the Gulf”	Christian Huxley
AWACS in the Gulf	Joe Stork
Special Reports
Pakistan’s Movement Against Islamization	Joe Stork, Eric Hooglund
Reviews
Ladjevardi, Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran	Afsaneh Najmabadi
Beck, The Qashqa’i of Iran	Bahman Abdollahi
CARDRI, Saddam’s Iraq	Thabit Abdullah
Nonneman, Iraq, the Gulf States and the War	Fred H. Lawson
Peterson, Defending Arabia	Fred H. Lawson
Hiro, Iran Under the Ayatollahs	Eric Hooglund
Letters (September/October 1987)