The Cold War in the Middle East : regional conflict and the superpowers, 1967-73 / edited by Nigel J. Ashton.

Includes index.

Preface -- Introduction : the Cold War in the Middle East, 1967-73 / Nigel J. Ashton -- The Cold War and the Six Day War : U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli crisis of June 1967 / Peter L. Hahn -- The politics of stalemate : the Nixon administration and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-73 / Salim Yaqub -- The Cold War and the Soviet attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict / Galia Golan -- Israel's traumatic pre-1967 war experience and its implications for Israel's foreign policy decision-making in the post-war period / Zaki Shalom -- Military/political means/ends : Egyptian decision-making in the War of Attrition / Laura M. James -- How American and Israeli intelligence failed to estimate the Soviet intervention in the war of attrition / Dima P. Adamsky -- The origins of a misnomer : the 'expulsion of Soviet advisers' from Egypt in 1972 / Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez -- The 'Big Lie' and the gGreat Betrayal' : explaining the British collapse in Aden / Spencer Mawby -- Cold war, hot war and civil war : King Hussein and Jordan's regional role, 1967-73 / Nigel J. Ashton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.