Includes index. Based on a conference, entitled Twenty Years After the Six Day War: assessment and perspectives, held at American University, Apr. 3-4, 1987.

Introduction /Abdalla M. Battah and Yehuda Lukacs -- Israeli foreign policy since the Six Day War / Avner Yaniv -- Israeli policies toward the Arab states and the Palestinians since 1967 / Don Peretz -- From political nationalism to ethno-nationalism: the case of Israel / Yoram Peri -- The impact of the Six Day War on the Israeli right : a second republic in the making? / Ilan Peleg -- Palestinian nationalism since 1967: an overview / Naseer H. Aruri -- The West Bank Palestinians and the politics of marginalization / Emile F. Sahliyeh -- The structural and political context of the PLO's changing objectives in the post-1967 period / A. Rubenberg -- The PLO in retrospect: the Arab and Israeli dimensions / Aaron David Miller -- The June 1967 War: a turning point? / Carl Brown -- Structural and ideological change in the Arab subsystem since the Six Day War / Bassam Tibi -- The dialectics of inter-Arab relations, 1967-1987 / Bahgat Korany -- Egypt, Syria, and the Arab stae system / Raymond A. Hinnebusch -- American Middle East policy since the Six Day War / Steven L. Spiegel -- Entanglement: the commitment to Israel / Duncan L. Clarke -- Jewish and Arab diasporas in the United States and their impact on U.S. Middle East policy / Andrea Barron -- Moscow and the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1967 / Robert O. Freedman -- The Soviet Union and the Arab States since 1967 / Yahia H. Zoubir -- The economic factor in Soviet Middle Eastern policy / Walter G. Seabold -- The 'peace process' twenty years later: failure without alternative? / Johan Galtung -- The Palestinianization of the Arab-Israeli Conflict / Herbert C. Kelman -- Paradigms of Reality: the art and science of the Middle East peace process / Ofira Seliktar -- Psychological considerations in the peace process / Arabs and Israelis: changing perceptions and political attitudes / Erika G. Alin and Abdul Aziz Said.