Introduction /Stephen Low -- Iran and the war : from stalemate to ceasefire / Shahram Chubin -- Oil and instability : the political economy of petroleum and the Gulf War / Giacomo Luciani -- Islamic fundamentalism and regional dynamics / John Voll -- Iraq in the Gulf War : objectives, strategies and problems / Philip Robins -- The Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War / Johannes Reissner -- The regional balance / Anthony Cordesman -- The Gulf Cooperation Council / Ursula Braun -- 'The mice will play'--Kurds, Turks and the Gulf War / Malcolm Yapp -- The United States and the Persian Gulf / Gary Sick -- Alliance cooperation and conflict in the Middle East : the Gulf experience / Hanns W. Maull -- Japan : vulnerabilities and responses / Masahi Nishihara -- The aftermath / Otto Pick.