Rev. and updated papers originally delivered at an international conference at Tel Aviv university in September 1988.

The war and the belligerents. Iran and the war : from stalemate to ceasefire / Shahram Chubin -- From ideological zeal to geopolitical realism : the Islamic Republic and the Gulf / Efraim Karsh -- Iran : doctrine and reality / David Menashri -- The consequences of the Iran-Iraq war for Iraqi politics / Charles Tripp -- Iraq : between east and west / Amazia Baram -- Regional implications. The impact on the Arab world / Itamar Rábinovich -- The war and the spread of Islamic fundamentalism / Robin Wright -- The Gulf states and the Iran-Iraq war / Barry Rubin -- The silent victor : Turkey's role in the Gulf War / Henri J. Barkey -- Israel and the Iran-Iraq war / Joseph Alpher -- The war and the world. Walking tightropes in the Gulf / Thomas L. McNaugher -- The Soviet Union and the Iran-Iraq war / Robert S. Litwak -- Europe and the Iran-Iraq war / John Chipman -- The economics of war. Economic implications for the region and world oil market / Eliyahu Kanovsky -- Strategic and military implications. A military-strategic overview / Chaim Herzog -- The arms race after the Iran-Iraq war / Geoffrey Kemp -- Escalation in the Iran-Iraq war / Philip A.G. Sabin.