Chapter The Middle East and the Study of International Relations -- chapter 1 The Middle East in historical context -- chapter 2 Crisis: The provocation and the protagonists -- chapter 3 The United Nations and the Gulf conflict -- chapter 4 The diplomacy of crisis -- chapter 5 The Gulf conflict and international law -- chapter 6 The laws of war and the Gulf conflict -- chapter 7 Morality and the Gulf conflict -- chapter 8 The economic dimension of the Gulf conflict -- chapter 9 War, strategy and the Gulf conflict -- chapter 10 The aftermath.