Papers from a conference held at the Baltimore Hebrew University in 1988.

Continuity and change in Soviet policy toward the Middle East under Gorbachev / Robert O. Freedman -- Policy and the Middle East, 1985-1988 : the impact of the Iran-Contra Affair / Barry Rubin -- Western Europe and the Middle East since the Iran-Contra Affair / Robert E. Hunter -- Arab politics and the Iran-Contra Affair / Jerold D. Green -- The Gulf Cooperation Council : security in the era following the Iran-Contra Affair / Shireen T. Hunter -- Iran and the United States : "Islamic realism"? / R.K. Ramazani -- Iraq emerges / Frederick W. Axelgrad -- Israel's national unity : solution or stalemate? / David Pollock -- The Palestinians : from the Hussein-Arafat Agreement to the Intifada / Helena Cobban -- The importance of being Hussein : Jordanian foreign policy and peace in the Middle East / Adam M. Garfinkle -- Syria and its neighbors / John F. Devlin -- Lebanon in the aftermath of the abrogation of the Israeli-Lebanese Accord / Marius Deeb -- Egypt reenters the Arab state system / Louis J. Cantori -- The Sudan since the fall of Numayri / Peter Bechtold -- Turkey between the Middle East and the West / George E. Gruen.