The new world balance and peace in the Middle East : reality or mirage? : A colloquium held under the auspices of the Institute for Mediterranean Affairs on Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5, 1973, at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York City / edited by Seymour Maxwell Finger.

Proceedings of the colloquium.

Opening remarks / Seymour M. Finger -- The respective positions of the Arabs and Israel on a peace settlement / Malcolm H. Kerr -- Russian presence and economic interests in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean / Drew Middleton -- Military capabilities in the Middle East / Gil Carl AlRoy -- Big power confrontations in the Middle East / Hans J. Morgenthau -- Western Europe and the tensions in the Middle East / Jacob Javits -- The United Nations and the Arab-Israeli conflict / John G. Stoessinger -- Demography, economics, and technology and the Middle East conflict / Abba P. Lerner -- The energy crisis and the Middle East / William D. Smith -- The energy crisis and its potential effects upon American policy / Joachim O. Ronall -- China and Japan and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Gidon Gottlieb -- Religion as a cultural and political factor in the Middle East -past and present / Ilse Lichtenstadter -- American strategic and economic interests in the area / Amos Perlmutter -- Peace without the Palestinians? / Eric Rouleau --

American relations with the Arab states and Israel / Richard Nolte -- The Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the Six-day War / Don Peretz -- The Nixon administration and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Alfred LeRoy Atherton -- The Nixon doctrine and the Middle East / Seymour M. Finger -- Is peace possible? what are the options? / Lord Caradon -- Summation and projections / Samuel Merlin.