International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict, 1990-91, is a collection of important new work on the conflict by the leading authorities in the field. Unusually, this is an international investigation of an international conflict. The result is stimulating, capacious, original, and authoritativethe most complete and up-to-date guide to the subject yet to appear.

"This book grew out of an international conference on the Gulf conflict, held under the aegis of the Department of International Relations at Keele University in September 1992"--Acknowledgements.

Introduction :The rules of propriety / Alex Danchev and Dan Keohan -- Regional politics and the Conflict / Shahram Chubin -- Calculation and miscalculation in Baghdad / Amatzia Baram -- Israel and the Conflict / Avi Shlaim -- Palestinian perspectives on the Conflict / Anoushiravan Ehteshami -- US policy in the Conflict / Richard K. Herrmann -- Soviet policy in Conflict / Vladimir Nosenko -- British policy in the Conflict / Dan Keohan -- French policy in the Conflict / Jolyon Howorth -- The theory of limited war / Lawrence Freedman -- The air war / Edward Luttwak -- The laws of war / Adam Roberts -- The Conflict in comparative perspective / Oliver Ramsbotham.