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In June 1988 the Washington Times reported that sources close to the Saudi royal family had revealed that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze would visit Saudi Arabia by the end of October and that this visit could culminate in the resumption of formal diplomatic relations between the two governments.1 In 1938 the relatively fledgling Soviet and Saudi regimes allowed relations to lapse and for many years thereafter Saudi Arabia remained isolated from any significant contact with the Soviets.
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Stephen Page, ‘Moscow and The Arabian Peninsula’, American—Arab Affairs, Spring 1984, p. 87.
Although dealing primarily with the Arab—Israel aspect of US and Soviet Middle East policies, Alfred L. Atherton, Jr rebuts the zero-sum-game approach in ‘The Soviet Role in The Middle East: An American View’, The Middle East Journal, Autumn 1985, p. 709.
Galia Golan, ‘Gorbachev’s Middle East Strategy’, Foreign Affairs, Fall 1987, p. 41.
Dr A.Z. Arabajan, head of Iranian Department, Soviet Academy of Science’s Institute for Eastern Studies, as quoted by David Segal in ‘The Iran—Iraq War: A Military Analysis’, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1988, p. 962.
John C. Campbell, ‘Soviet Strategy in The Middle East’, American—Arab Affairs, Spring 1984, p. 74.
See for discussion of this trend, Golan, ‘Gorbachev’s Middle East Strategy’, p. 48, and Marshall D. Shulman, ‘The Superpowers: Dance of the Dinosaurs’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 66, no. 3 (1988) pp. 500–2.
For a critical discussion of the military emphasis of US Gulf policy in the wake of enunciation of the Carter Doctrine and the ambivalent reaction of pro-Western Gulf governments, see Christopher Van Hollen, ‘Don’t Engulf The Gulf’, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1981. See also Joseph Wright Twinam, ‘U.S. Interests in The Arabian Gulf’, American—Arab Affairs, Summer 1987, pp. 7–10.
Stephanie G. Neuman, in ‘Arms, Aid And The Superpowers’, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1988, pp. 1055–6
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Twinam, J.W. (1990). Soviet Policy for the Gulf Arab States. In: Malik, H. (eds) Domestic Determinants of Soviet Foreign Policy towards South Asia and the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11318-7_13
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