Publisher's Synopsis
This study analyzes the impact that Soviet foreign policy has had under Gorbachev's "new thinking" with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian issue and the prospects for superpower co-operation for the achievement of a settlement. The question of Soviet arms sales and prospects for regional security are examined in this context. The conduct of Soviet policy towards the Gulf states and the application of the "new thinking" during the Gulf crisis are also examined, with particular reference to domestic Soviet politics and their impact on Middle Eastern policy.;Galia Golan is the Darwin Professor of Soviet and East European Studies as well as the director of the Mayrock Centre for Soviet and East European Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of "Soviet Policies in the Middle East Since World War Two" (CUP, 1990), "Gorbachev's New Thinking on Terrorism" (Praeger, 1990), "The Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World" (Unwin Hyman, 1988), "The Soviet Union and the Palestine Liberation Movement" (Praeger, 1980), "Yom Kippur and After: the Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis" (CUP, 1977), "Reform Rule in Czechoslovakia: The Dubcek Era", (CUP, 1973), and "The Czechoslovak Reform Movement: Communism in Crisis 1963-1967" (CUP, 1971).
