Includes bibliographical references and index.

Britain and the Middle East : in pursuit of eternal interests / Mark Sedgwick -- Old interests, new purpose : French foreign policy in the Middle East / Daniel W. Kuthy -- Germany and the Middle East : the construction of moral interests / Jack Covarrubias, Chris White -- US-Russian competition in the Middle East : convergences and divergences in foreign security policy / Mira Duric, Tom Lansford -- China's Middle East policy since the post-Mao reform / Chunlong Lu, Jie Chen -- Japan between the United States and the Middle East / George Ehrhardt -- At the crossroads of foreign policy decisions : India in the Middle East / Anna Rulska, David Jackson -- The United States and Israel : the implications of alignment / Daniel J. Graeber -- Realpolitik and religion : the twin sources of Saudi Arabia's foreign policy / Evan Campbell, Steve A. Yetiv -- The centrality of Egypt to the future of the greater Middle East / B.J. Jordan, Robert J. Pauly, Jr. -- Iran and the Middle East : the pursuit of security and legitimacy in the American age / Vaughn P. Shannon -- NATO and the Middle East : the road to greater engagement / Chris Zambelis, Eva Svobodová -- The United States and the Arab League / Jack Kalpakian -- The United States and the United Nations : partnership for peace? / Tom Lansford.