L. Carl Brown is Emeritus Professor at Princeton University and the author of Internation Politics and the Middle East (I.B.Tauris).

• Part 1 The four great powers: France's Arab policy, Remy Leveau; Britain and the Middle East after 1945, Wm. Roger Louis; America and the Middle East, William B. Quandt; the Middle East in Russia's strategic prism, Alvin Z. Rubinstein. Part 2 Israel and the Arabs: Egypt, Michael Doran; Israeli foreign policy, Bernard Reich; in search of budget security - Jordanian foreign policy, Laurie A. Brand; the foreign policy of Syria, C. Ernest Dawn. Part 3 The larger Arab world: Iraqi foreign policy, Phebe Marr; Moroccan foreign policy, I. William Zartman; Saudi Arabia's foreign policy, Hermann Frederick Eilts. Part 4 The other Middle East: Iran, Shaul Bakhash; Turkey's foreign policy - independent or reactive?, George S. Harris. Part 5 Rounding out the area: the foreign policies of other Middle Eastern states, L. Carl Brown. Part 6 Conclusion - making sense of Middle Eastern diplomacy, L. Carl Brown.