Volume 2, Number 4 · April 2, 1964
Middle-Eastern Illusions
By Walter Laqueur
The Middle East and the West
by Bernard Lewis
Indiana, 160 pp., $3.75
The Arabs and the World: Nasser's Arab Nationalist Policy
by Charles D. Cremeans
Praeger, 352 pp., $6.50
III Rzesza i Arabski Wschod (The Third Reich and the Arab East)
by Lukasz Hirszowicz
Ksiazka i Wiedza (Warsaw), 585 pp., 50 zloty
Egypt in Revolution
by Charles Issawi
Oxford, 372 pp., $7.20
With the exception of Cyprus, the Middle East furnishes few headlines in the world's press now, nor does it stand high on the list of problems that give diplomats sleepless nights. Yet ten or even five years ago, an American President had to interrupt a round of golf to attend to some sudden crisis in a remote Middle Eastern country that most Americans (and in fact most Russians) had barely even heard of. To the West, the Middle East was important for several reasons, not the least of which were the presence of rich oil fields and strategic bases there. Neutralist in foreign policy—to the consternation of the late Mr. Dulles—the Arab countries seemed in addition to have virtually a monolopy of political instability.
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