Iran and the Arab World [Paperback]

The Middle East has been the arena of three cataclysmic events since 1979 - the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War. All of these have brought about major changes in the inter-regional politics and relations between Middle East countries and the outside world. This book seeks to analyze the impact of these events on Iranian-Arab relations. The authors examine Iran's relations with the Arab states of the Gulf in detail and sheds light on the changing patterns of Iranian-Egyptian and Lebanese relations.Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Iranian-Arab Relations in Transition; H.Amirahmadi & N.Entessar - Conceptual Sources of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Behaviour Toward the Arab World; M.Sariolghalam - The Ideological Context of the Iran-Iraq War: Pan-Islamism Versus Pan-Arabism; M.Massarrat - The Iran-Iraq War; D.Hiro - Revolutionary Iran's Persian Gulf Policy: The Quest for Regional Supremacy; B.Bakhtiari - Iran and the Persian Gulf Crisis; H.Amirahmadi - The Impact of American Policies on Iranian-Arab Relations; J.Kechichian - The Iranian-Saudi Arabian Relations Since the Revolution; H.Amirahmadi - The Lion and the Sphinx: The Iranian-Egyptian Relations in Perspective; N.Entessar - Lebanon in Iran's Foreign Policy: Opportunities and Constraints; N.Hitti - Iran and Syria: From Hostility to Limited Alliance; S.T.Hunter - Iran and Iraq: Changing Relations and Future Prospects; A.Parasiliti - Index