BERNARD REICH, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, and currently serves as a consultant to various U.S. government agencies and is Chairman of Advanced Area Studies (Middle East-Fertile Crescent) at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute and an adjunct faculty member of several defense and armed forces schools and institutes. He is a member of the Board of advisory editors of the Middle East Journal and has published widely on the Middle East. His most recent books for Greenwood Press include The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Historical Encyclopedia> (forthcoming shortly),
curing the Covenant: United States Relations after the Cold War (1995), Iraeli Politics in the 1990s: Key Domestic and Foreign Policy Factors (1991) and