Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America and the Rumors of War

by Steven Simon and Dana Allin

Book Overview

There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air strikes to stop it, are ingredients for a conflict that could ruin any residual hopes for fostering peace in the region. The Sixth Crisis explores the fraught linkages between the Iranian nuclear challenge, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199754497
• ISBN13: 9780199754496
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"