The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz by R. K. Ramazani Review by: John C. Campbell Foreign Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Spring, 1980), p. 984 Published by: Council on Foreign Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20040560 . Accessed: 16/06/2014 00:26 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
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If he over-argues the case and paints Israel and Zionism without redeeming features, it may be because of the intensity of his conviction, which is not without basis in fact, that the Palestinian Arabs have been ill used by others and ignored or dismissed by the Western world. DECISION ON PALESTINE: HOW THE U.S. CAME TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL. By Evan M. Wilson. Stanford: Hoover Press, 1979, 244 pp. $14.95. Evan Wilson's close involvement in American policymaking on Palestine in the 1940s gives him a unique vantage point for writing the diplomatic history of those critical years. This is no memoir but a careful, objective and revealing job of research, in which Wilson probes for the national and personal reasons behind the key decisions. MY HOME, MY PRISON. By Raymonda Hawa Tawil. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980, 265 pp. $12.95. Raymonda Tawil is an ardent feminist and a symbol of militant Arab Palestinian nationalism. In recounting her life in Israel, in Jordan, and in the Occupied West Bank (where she was put under house arrest), she makes a profession of faith both in self-determination for the Palestine Arabs and in the possible coexistence of a free Arab Palestinian state and a free Israel. THE PERSIAN GULF AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. By R. K. Ramazani. Alphen aan den Rijn (Netherlands): Sijthoff, 1979, 180 pp. $35.00. In this volume, one in a series on international straits, the author gives us all the necessary geographical, legal and strategic information on Hormuz, the "global chokepoint," plus extended and well-reasoned discussion of the many international problems of the Gulf region. Some of his future "sce narios," however, suffer from having been written before the revolution in Iran. SOCIAL AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN IRAQ. By Saddam Hussein. Lon don: Croom Helm, 1979, 123 pp. (Totowa, N.J.: Biblio, distributor, $18.00). Speeches and statements by Iraq's President and supreme leader, from which one gets the flavor of his political philosophy. The pan-Arab theme and the Palestinian cause predominate, but he also comments on what he intends for Iraq, and how he sees relations with the great powers. THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: UNITY IN FRAGMENTATION. By Ali Mohammed Khalifa. Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press, 1979, 235 pp. $24.50. A portrait of the UAE describing the factors of integration and disintegra tion, the constitutional impasse, the personalities of the present leaders, and the all-important regional and global context of the federation's future. Refreshingly candid, inasmuch as the author is a Saudi Arabian official. ORIGINS OF THE SAUDI ARABIAN OIL EMPIRE: SECRET U.S. DOCUMENTS, 1923-1944. Edited by Nelson Robertson. Salisbury (N.C.): Documentary Publications, 1980, 190 pp. $24.95. This content downloaded from 188.72.126.108 on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:26:34 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp Article Contents p. 984 Issue Table of Contents Foreign Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Spring, 1980), pp. A1-A16, 775-998, A17-A54 Front Matter Editor's Note Human Rights and Foreign Policy: A Proposal [pp. 775-796] Misconceptions about Russia Are a Threat to America [pp. 797-834] Yugoslavia: The Delicate Balance [pp. 835-851] Yugoslavia and the Expansionism of the Soviet State [pp. 852-866] Germany in a Semi-Gaullist Europe [pp. 867-886] A Strategy for Peace in the Middle East [pp. 887-901] Power, Mobility and the Law of the Sea [pp. 902-919] China Enters the 1980s [pp. 920-935] Reconsiderations The Great Game in Asia [pp. 936-951] Comment and Correspondence Israel and the United States [pp. 952-962] Arms for Morocco? 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