"Up-to-date and engaging . . . a welcome addition to the scholarly literature on the Persian Gulf's foreign and security challenges in the twenty-first century."--Nader Entessar, Spring Hill College

Despite the volume of literature on the Persian Gulf and the Arab-Israeli conflict, few analysts have sought to establish the connection between the Gulf and the Levant. Bahgat argues that peace between the Arabs and the Israelis and stability in the Persian Gulf are intertwined, and as developments in one region are echoed in the other a detente between the Persian Gulf states and Israel...