151 - MERIP

March/April 1988

Middle East Report 151 looks at the place of the region in US and Soviet global strategies in the 1980s.


From the Editors (March/April 1988)	The Editors
Articles
The Great Powers and the Middle East	Fred Halliday
North-South vs. East-West	Michael Klare
The Middle East and Soviet Military Strategy	Michael McGwire
Moscow’s Crisis Management	Fred Halliday
Soviet Perceptions of Iraq	Roderic Pitty
Reagan’s Iran	Eric Hooglund
Nuclear Summits and the Middle East	Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Special Reports
Italy to the Gulf—and Back	Diane Johnstone
Iraq’s Seventh Year	Isam al-Khafaji
A Split in the Iraqi Communist Party?	Isam al-Khafaji
Reviews
Cover-up and Blowback	Jonathan Marshall
Sivan, Radical Islam; Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt	Michael Gilsenan
Rubenberg, Israel and the American National Interest	Edward Danforth
Adams, The Financing of Terror	Rex Brynen

Editor’s Bookshelf