TY - BOOK AU - Primakov,Yevgeny TI - Russia and the Arabs: behind the scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present SN - 046500475X U1 - 327.47056 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, NY PB - Basic Books KW - Primakov, Yevgeny KW - Cercano Oriente KW - PolĂ­tica y gobierno KW - 1945- KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Rusia N1 - Incluye bibliografĂ­a; The nationalist revolutionaries -- A failed chance for Arab-Israeli relations -- The inevitable confrontation with the west -- National interests take precedence over Arab unity -- The Soviet Union and the Arab world: a difficult path to closer ties -- The lost cause of Communism -- America steps forward -- The beginning and end of the six-day war -- USA: tactics in the new Middle East -- Hidden pressures behind the Yom Kippur War of 1973 -- The making of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty -- Lebanon in the eye of a storm -- A return to a harder line -- The Arafat phenomenon -- The Soviet Union and Israel -- The phenomenon that was Saddam Hussein -- The sage of the Kurds -- A nuclear shadow over the Arab-Israeli conflict -- The future of the Middle East ER -