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In this objective study Imtiaz Bokhari studies three major regional crises - the Iran-Iraq war, the 1971 Indo-Pakistan crisis, and the 1973 Arab-Israel war - each of which continues to carry within it the danger of turning into a major international conflagration, and looks at the ways in which the powers-that-be have managed to contain the crises.
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Imtiaz Bokhari details the world response to three regional conflicts--the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the 1971 Indo-Pak crisis, and the Iran-Iraq war--and analyzes the dynamics of the comcomitant international crisis management. There exists a greater need for crisis management, the author argues,in a international system in which the disintegration of the old superpower competition and restraints has changed the rules of the game to the apparent advantage of the stronger regional powers.
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