Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East

The conceptual genesis of this book derives from the long-standing interests of both authors in the role of geography in international politics. With support from grants provided between 1991 and 1995 by the Ford Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and especially the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Geoffrey Kemp's Middle East Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment was able to undertake a series of studies on the Middle East arms race, U.S. relations with Iran, and the Arab-Israeli peace process. Owing to the significant geopolitical changes brought about by the end of the cold war it was decided that a substantive study on the role of strategic geography in the Middle East would be a welcome addition to the analysis of regional conflict and discussion of the prospects for conflict resolution.Kemp, Geoffrey is the author of 'Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East', published 1997 under ISBN 9780870030239 and ISBN 087003023X.