COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM A CONFERENCE HELD AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1969.

Historical introduction /Ivo J. Lederer -- The continuing crisis / John C. Campbell -- The Soviet Union and Turkey / George S. Harris -- Soviet-Iranian relations: a quarter-century of freeze and thaw / Firuz Kazemzadeh -- The Soviet Union nad North Africa / John Waterbury -- The Soviet Union nad Egypt: the Nasser years / P.J. Vatikiotis -- The Soviet Union in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan / Harry N. Howard -- The Soviet Union and Israel: 1947-1969 / Nadav Saffran -- Soviet studies on the Middle East / Wayne S. Vucinich.