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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East (1st Edition) by Professor Rashid Khalidi Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-8070-0310-7 / 0807003107 ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-0310-7 / 9780807003107 During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological thrust, were, in fact, to gain control over access to oil and claim geographic and strategic advantage. |