Based on a conference held at U.C.L.A. in April 1988.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rules of the game: the geopolitics of U.S. policy options in southwest Asia / Bruce R. Kuniholm -- Slouching toward settlement: the institutionalization of the Iran-Iraq War, 1987-1988 / Gary Sick -- The Iranian revolution and great-power politics: components of the first decade / Fred Halliday -- U.S. and Soviet responses to Islamic political militancy / Richard W. Cottam.
Trends in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-1988 / Maziar Behrooz -- Iran's resistance to the U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf / R.K. Ramazani -- The role of Iran in Soviet perceptions and policy, 1946-1988 / Richard Herrmann -- Myths of Soviet-Iranian relations / Muriel Atkin -- Gorbechev, Iran, and the Iran-Iraq War / Robert O. Freedman -- Security relations between the United States and Iran, 1953-1978 / Mark J. Gasiorowski -- The U.S. overture to Iran, 1985-1986: an analysis / James A. Bill -- The policy of the Reagan Administration toward Iran / Eric Hooglund.