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Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States.
edited by Joseph A. Kechichian. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 471 pages. $69.95, hardcover.
Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States is a first-rate compendium of analytical snapshots that is both blessed and cursed by inadvertent timeliness. Edited by Joseph A. Kechichian, a fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles and a well-established scholar of the region, the book offers a far-reaching profile of the relatively small sliver of geography from whence so many of America's security challenges emanate. Written and edited long before the tragic events of September 11, the U.S. war on terrorism and Washington's declaration of both Iraq and Iran as charter members of an "axis of evil," this book also offers a window on our strategic concer...See the full content of this document
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