"Remarkable...breathtaking in its scope and historical precision, this is highly recommended volume for both publivc and academic libraries.-Library Journal.

Introduction
1. The Post-Ottoman Syndrome
2. Succeeding John Bull
3. America Between Arabs and Israelis
4. Realpolitik in the Gulf
5. Tilting Toward Iraq
6. Desert Shield and Desert Storm
7. Madrid and After
8. Pax Americana
Notes on Sources

Avi Shlaim was born in Baghdad in 1945, grew up in Israel, and studied at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. He is an emeritus fellow of St. Anthony's College and a former professor of international relations at the University of Oxford. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2006. His books include Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (winner of the Political Studies Association’s 1988 WJM Mackenzie Book Prize); The Politics of Partition; War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History; and The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.