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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- 1. American Entanglement in Three-dimensional Politics -- Legacies -- 2. The Islamic Tradition -- 3. The Beginnings of Military Modernization -- 4. European Imperial Styles -- Postwar Politics -- 5. Military Politics and the Lingering Cold War -- 6. Armies in Postwar Politics -- Military Republics -- 7. Egypt: Military Rule in a Rapidly Changing Society -- 8. Military Roulette: Syria and Iraq -- 9. Sudan: Military Interruption of Civilian Rule -- Military-Civilian Coalitions -- 10. Junior Partners: Pakistan and Algeria -- 11. Concealed Partners: Pakistan and Turkey -- Traditional Monarchies -- 12. Libya: Triumph of Sanusi Leadership -- 13. Saudi Arabia: The Peninsula Under Najdi Rule -- 14. Yemen: Test of Zaydi Durability -- Modernizing Monarchies -- 15. An American Client: Iran -- 16. Cold War Beneficiary: Afghanistan -- 17. Jordan: Keeping a Nonviable State Alive -- 18. Constitutional Absolutism: Morocco -- 19. Kuwayt: An Affluent Amirate Under Political Siege -- Non-military Republics -- 20. Garrison Democracy: Israel -- 21. Confessional Democracy: Lebanon -- 22. Tunisia: Stable One-Party System -- Regional Consequences -- 23. Armies as Agencies of Social Change -- 24. Arms Races in the Region -- 25. Races in the Arab-Israel Zone -- 26. Changing Military Politics and United States Options -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Index.

In the first dozen years of the UN's existence Middle East disputes came before the Security Council and appeared on the agenda of the General Assembly with greater frequency than did disputes in any other region of the world. Thereafter the Middle East did not always occupy the center of the UN's peacekeeping stage. Yet as recent developments in the Arab-Israeli area and in Cyprus and Yemen disclose, the Middle East remains a region of deep restiveness that continues to threaten world peace and security. Every regular session of the General Assembly, except the first session in 1946, has considered Middle East items. Two special sessions dealt with the Palestine problem, and two emergency sessions handled the Suez and Lebanese crises. The Security Council has turned to the Palestine problem or its lineal descendant, the Arab-Israeli dispute, at approximately every sixth meeting.