Foreign Policies Of Arab States

Middle East politics have been proverbial for their changeability. The 1970s ushered in petro-politics, for instance, but OPEC''s international status declined markedly in the following decade. Similarly, the Arab world''s ostracism of Egypt in the 1970s following its separate peace with Israel was turned around in the 1980s; the late 1980s also brought PLO acceptance of the State of Israel. Inter...