Groundbreaking. . . . Offers the perspectives of well-known scholars on a constellation of events that are reshaping the nature of international affairs."--Walid Kazziha, American University in Cairo"A significant contribution to the field of international relations in general and to the area of foreign policy in particular. . . . Useful for undergraduate courses on the Middle East, as well as graduate studies."--Richard H. Pfaff, professor emeritus, University of ColoradoThe Ismaels, a seasoned team of scholars, bring together here renowned experts in international affairs who explore the nature and implications of the Gulf War, particularly as it affects the fashioning of a New World Order.>IntroductionPart I: The Gulf War and the International OrderReflections on the Gulf War Experience: Force and War in the UN System, by Richard A. FalkThe United Nations in the Gulf War, by Robert SpringborgBush's New World Order: A Structural Analysis of Instability and Conflict in the Gulf, by Yasumasa KurodaThe European Community's Middle Eastern Policy: The New Order of Europe and the Gulf Crisis, by Friedemann Buettner and Martin LandgrafRegional Cooperation and Security in the Middle East: The Role of the European Community, by Timothy NiblockJapan: An Economic Superpower in Search of Its Proper Political Role in the Post-Cold War Era, by Yasumasa KurodaPart II: The United States and the New World OrderBetween Theory and Fact: Explaining U.S. Behavior in the Gulf Crisis, by Shibley TelhamiThe New World Order and the Gulf War: Rhetoric, Policy, and Politics in the United States, by Enid HillThe Making of the New World Order: The Role of the Media, by Malcolm HaywardDefeating the Vietman Syndrome: The Military, the Media, and the Gulf War, by Andrew T. ParasilitiPart III: The Gulf War and the Middle East OrderIraq and the New World Order, by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter SluglettIran and the New World Order, by Scheherazade DaneshkhuThe Gulf War, the Palestinians, and the New World Order, by Cheryl A. RubenbergIsrael and the New World Order, by Meir PoratJordan and the Gulf War, by Kamel S. Abu JaberSyria, the Kuwait War, and the New World Order, by Eberhard KienleImagining Egypt in the New Age: The Critique of the Left from Egyptian Civil Society, by Raymond W. BakerTurkey, the Gulf Crisis, and the New World Order, by Tozun BahcheliPart IV: Political Trends and Cultural PatternsThe Middle East in the New World Order: Political Trends, by Louis J. CantoriIslam, Democracy, and the Arab Future: Contested Islam in the Gulf Crisis, by Raymond W. BakerIslam at War and Communism in Retreat: What Is the Connection? by Ali A. MazruiGlobal Apartheid? Race and Religion in the New World Order, by Ali A. MazruiDemocracy Died at the Gulf, by Richard A. FalkTareq Y. Ismael is professor of political science and Jacqueline S. Ismael is professor of social welfare, both at the University of Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of Kuwait: Dependency and Class in a Rentier State (UPF, 1993). They are coauthors of Politics and Government in the Middle East and North Africa (UPF, 1991).