The Sixth Crisis

• A concise yet major intervention into one of the key crises in world politics
• Authored by two of America's leading specialists on international security in the Middle East
• A balanced, even-handed account of the forces that are driving Iran, Israel, and the US toward crisis, and what can be done to defuse it

Dana Allin, Senior Fellow, US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Steven Simon, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council of Foreign Relations

"Not only is the book the best description available of "the sixth crisis" that Washington has faced in the Middle East since World War II; it also suggests a U.S. policy: given the likely failure to reach a negotiated settlement, a regional variant of the Cold War containment policy might be the best default position." - Foreign Affairs

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