title: The British and the Middle East: The Arab Question, 1914-1919
author: Robert H. Lieshout
description: Robert H. Lieshout is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He has published widely on the theory and history of international relations, including two major works of Political Science: <EM>Between Anarchy and Hierarchy: A Theory of International Relations and Foreign Policy</EM> (1995); and <EM>The Struggle for the Organization of Europe: The Foundations of the European Union</EM> (1999). He was president of the Dutch Political Science Association from 1999 till 2003. This book is based on extensive archival research spanning several decades, work completed with Elie Kedourie.
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  Crisis in the Middle East:
  Israel and the Arab States
  1945–2007
  Michael Scott-Baumann
  AN HACHETTE UK COMPANY
  
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