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PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington last week with a carefully thought-out plan for peace and reform. In earlier telephone conversations with President Clinton he had made clear that [...]

Discusses the foreign relations of the U.S. with Iraq under the regime of President Jimmy Carter. Political hegemony retained by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; Anti-Israel stance held by Hussein; Political ideology of Carter towards Iraq; Brief history of Iraqi politics and rulers; Information that Iraq has served as a sanctuary for the most radical Arab and Palestinian groups, including groups directly connected to Moscow.

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman (Henry Holt, 612 pp., $35) One Palestine, Complete is the latest contribution to [...]

Organizers of NATO's 50th anniversary summit had anticipated a celebration of NATO success in winning the Cold War. Instead, they were hard-pressed to avoid the pall of the funeral of [...]

ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS A History of Israel's Intelligence Services. By Ian Black and Benny Morris. 603 pp. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. $24.95. If sheer volume of fascinating information and entertaining [...]

Focuses on the strategy followed by the Soviet Union for having a stronghold in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). Impact of the reunification of the South and North Yemen on the stronghold of the Soviet Union in the country; Hurdles in the way of unity in the way of South and North Yemen; Increase in the economic and military presence of the Soviet Union in Yemen; Emergence of Ali Nasser Muhammed as the top man in the PDRY; Fall of controversial and radical president Abdul Fattah Ismail in April; Reunification talks of Nasser Muhammed with North Yemen prime minister Abdul Aziz Abdulghani; Sale of arms to North Yemen by the Soviet Union; Efforts of Ismail for the reunification of North and South Yemen; Efforts of Nasser Muhammed to strengthen the relationship with the Soviet Union; Views of Abdulghani on the reunification.

Provides some insights into the views and policies of the government of Israel on captured territories citing the relations between Israel and the Arab countries. Efforts of the United States government under President Lyndon Baines Johnson in reaching a settlement in the Middle East and assist King Hussein of Jordan out of his difficulties; Issues on the antagonism between Arab and Jews; Conditions set by Israelis for liberation of Egyptian territory; Indications of foreign relations.

Bravo, Turkey! The most significant Muslim secular state, anchored between Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, clearly has demonstrated its courage and independence by defying an Islamic conference that […]

The abrupt firing of Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin's former national security adviser, tells us much about Yeltsin, his rule and his camarilla. It reveals the corporate, capitalist, [...]

The Clinton administration is preparing a formal policy on peacekeeping missions that may become the major prescription for maintaining peace in the post-Cold War world. A six-part classified document called [...]

Now that the agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization has been signed in Washington, it's time to consider what happens next. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza [...]

Three times during the most critical crossroads of this century, American academics, journalists, professional seers and leaders in the political community turned out to be wrong in their visions of [...]

Yet again, the United States and the international community are confronted and being forced to grapple with the realities of Somali anarchy, violence and instability. Months of a U.S. and [...]

While the United States and Europe dither falteringly in the hopeless quagmire of Bosnia and the disintegrating former Yugoslavia, the shadow of an imposing new potential economic and military colossus [...]

In Slobodan Milosevic, the United States faces a strategist much more cunning than his Croatian and certainly his Muslim rivals. The Serb advantage isn't just in terms of military hardware, [...]

In an interview in the New York Times in early April, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt blamed the United States for helping create an Islamic terrorist network by supporting the [...]

If communism has often been described as a disease, then Islamic fundamentalism is a plague infecting the entire Islamic world, from Morocco to India. The menace of communism was always [...]

IT TOOK ALMOST a month for the Western press, in the form of the New York Times, to catch up with the 'clarification' (i.e. retraction) by General Dmitri Volkogonov of [...]

The NATO allies agreed Nov. 18 to tighten economic sanctions against Serbia by enforcing a naval blockade on both the Adriatic Sea and the Danube River (with the help of [...]

Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire, by Patrick Seale (Random House, 340 pp., $22) PATRICK SEALE is, let us say, highly informed about and closely connected to Syria and its [...]